T.S. Eliot
Book description
In this "nuanced, discerning account of a life famously flawed in its search for perfection" (The New Yorker), Gordon captures Eliot's "complex spiritual and artistic history . . . with tact, diligence, and subtlety" (Boston Globe). Drawing on recently discovered letters, she addresses in full the issue of Eliot's anti-Semitism…
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1 author picked T.S. Eliot as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Every English major in the 20th century (maybe even in the 21st!) came to grips with T.S. Eliot.
People remember J. Alfred Prufrock and his love song. And The Waste Land has just passed its 100th birthday and readers are still scratching their heads over it.
T. S. Eliot was the man—along with several others—who made modern poetry “hard” and complicated, and he was quite a complicated figure himself.
Lyndall Gordon gives us Eliot in all his complexities and shows how he became our age’s Dr. Johnson.
From Willard's list on the lives and works of English and American poets.
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