"The Waste Land” poet (5)
I believe the answer is:
eliot
'the waste land poet' is the definition.
(I've seen this in another clue)
This is all the clue.
(Other definitions for eliot that I've seen before include "Middlemarch author" , "British poet, d. 1965" , "Pseudonymous writer" , "T S . . . . ., great poet of 'The Waste Land'" , "One of two writers" .)