Young Eliot : from St Louis to The waste land
Crawford, Robert, 1959-2015
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Published simultaneously in Britain and America to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the death of T. S. Eliot, this major biography traces the life of the twentieth century's most important poet from his childhood in the ragtime city of St Louis right up to the publication of his most famous poem, 'The Waste Land'. Meticulously detailed and incisively written, Young Eliot portrays a brilliant, shy and wounded American who defied his parents' wishes and committed himself to life as an immigrant in England, authoring work astonishing in its scope and hurt. Quoting extensively from poetry and prose as well as drawing on new interviews, archives, and previously undisclosed memoirs, Robert Crawford shows how Eliot's background in Missouri, Massachusetts and Paris made him a lightning conductor for modernity.
Main title:
Young Eliot : from St Louis to The waste land / Robert Crawford.
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Imprint:
London : Jonathan Cape, 2015.London : Jonathan Cape, 2015.
Collation:
xvi, 493 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780224093880 (hbk)
Dewey class:
920 ELI
Language:
English
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BRN:
1280648