The Letters of T. S. Eliot
Description
Volume One: 1898-1922 presents some 1,400 letters encompassing the years of Eliot's childhood in St. Louis, Missouri, through 1922, by which time the poet had settled in England, married his first wife, and published The Waste Land. Since the first publication of this volume in 1988, many new materials from British and American sources have come to light. More than two hundred of these newly discovered letters are now included, filling crucial gaps in the record and shedding new light on Eliot's activities in London during and after the First World War.
Volume Two: 1923-1925 covers the early years of Eliot's editorship of The Criterion, publication of The Hollow Men, and his developing thought about poetry and poetics. The volume offers 1,400 letters, charting Eliot's journey toward conversion to the Anglican faith, as well as his transformation from banker to publisher and his appointment as director of the new publishing house Faber & Gwyer. The prolific and various correspondence of this volume testifies to Eliot's growing influence as cultural commentator and editor.
Product Details
| Publisher | Yale University Press |
| Publish Date | September 20, 2011 |
| Pages | 912 |
| Language | English |
| Type |  Hardback |
| EAN/UPC | 9780300176865 |
| Dimensions | 9.4 X 6.5 X 2.1 inches | 3.1 pounds |
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Reviews
"Better than any biography could, these letters capture the unremitting nature of Eliot's anxieties, without which he would not have written his greatest poems."--Abigail Deutsch, Wall Street Journal
"These chunky tomes of his correspondence allow us to follow day by day, drop by harrowing drop, Eliot's 'rudely forced' metamorphosis into the poet of hysteria whose sufferings enabled him, like Dostoevsky, to find 'the entrance to a genuine and personal universe.'"--Mark Ford, New York Review of Books
"These letters do reveal the anxieties boiled down into 'The Waste Land.' They also show us the graces this browbeaten life possessed."--William Logan, New York Times Book Review
"Weirdly gripping. . . . One never knows when one might be stopped dead by a letter of singular importance."--James Longenbach, The Nation
"Read[s] as a who's who of literature. . . . Eliot's letters poignantly detail triumph, tragedy, and hard-earned mutual respect."--Publishers Weekly
"[Of] inestimable value . . . long-awaited [and] definitive."--Jeff Simon, Buffalo News
"In these adroitly annotated volumes, the poet's conquest of literary London is brought brilliantly to life."--Edward Short, Weekly Standard
"These two absorbing volumes . . . will fascinate every lover of literature, not just poetry."--Benjamin Ivry, San Francisco Chronicle
"New, detailed literary history of Eliot and his age. . . . Essential."--L. L. Johnson, Choice
"This new volume of letters shows Eliot going through tumultuous challenges and hardships. The letters strengthen our sense of the poetry's authenticity."--Christopher J. Knight, Commonweal
"A superbly presented collection."--James Broderick, Simply Charly website
"[A] vast treasure house. . . . Eliot's letters are like what he once called poetry itself: the highest form of entertainment."--Anthony Brandt
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