ISBN: 9780374536053

A groundbreaking new biography of one of the twentieth century's most important poetsOn the fiftieth anniversary of the death of T. S. Eliot, the award-winning biographer Robert Crawford … Mehr…

A groundbreaking new biography of one of the twentieth century's most important poetsOn the fiftieth anniversary of the death of T. S. Eliot, the award-winning biographer Robert Crawford presents us with the first volume of a comprehensive account of this poetic genius. Young Eliot traces the life of the twentieth century's most important poet from his childhood in St. Louis to the publication of his revolutionary poem The Waste Land. Crawford provides readers with a new understanding of some of the most widely read poems in the English language through his depiction of Eliot's childhood—laced with tragedy and shaped by an idealistic, bookish family in which knowledge of saints and martyrs was taken for granted—as well as through his exploration of Eliot's marriage to Vivien Haigh-Wood, a woman who believed that she loved Eliot in a way that destroys us both.Quoting extensively from Eliot's poetry and prose as well as drawing on new interviews, archives, and previously undisclosed memoirs, Crawford shows how the poet's background in Missouri, Massachusetts, and Paris made him a lightning rod for modernity. Most impressively, Young Eliot reveals the way Eliot accessed his inner life—his anguishes and his fears—and blended them with his omnivorous reading to create his masterpieces The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and The Waste Land. At last, we experience T. S. Eliot in all his tender complexity, as student and lover, penitent and provocateur, banker and philosopher—but most of all, Young Eliot shows us an epoch-shaping poet struggling to make art among personal disasters. Trade Books>Trade Paperback>Biography>Literature Biog,Memoir>Literature Biog,Memoir, Farrar, Straus and Giroux Core >1<

2016, ISBN: 0374536058

[EAN: 9780374536053], Neubuch, [PU: Farrar Straus Giroux], LITERARY BIOGRAPHY, 'TS Eliot was never young': so begins Robert Crawford's superb biography of the young poet. Quoting extensiv… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780374536053], Neubuch, [PU: Farrar Straus Giroux], LITERARY BIOGRAPHY, 'TS Eliot was never young': so begins Robert Crawford's superb biography of the young poet. Quoting extensively from poetry and prose, interviews and previously undisclosed memoirs, Crawford presents a full and detailed portrait of 'Tom' in his youth and early career, from his childhood in St Louis, Missouri, where he was born in 1888, to the publication of The Waste Land in New York and London in 1922., Books<