The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 2: 1923-1925

Author: Eliot, T. S.

Brand: Penguin Random House

Edition: Main

Binding: hardcover

Number Of Pages: 912

Release Date: 22-12-2009

Details: Product Description


Volume Two covers the early years of his editorship of The Criterion (the periodical that Eliot launched with Lady Rothermere's backing in 1922), publication of The Hollow Men and the course of Eliot's thinking about poetry and poetics after The Waste Land. The correspondence charts Eliot's intellectual journey towards conversion to the Anglican faith in 1927, as well as his transformation from banker to publisher, ending with his appointment as a director of the new publishing house of Faber & Gwyer, in late 1925, and the appearance of Poems 1909-1925, Eliot's first publication with the house with which he would be associated for the rest of his life. It was partly because of Eliot's profoundly influential work as cultural commentator and editor that the correspondence is so prolific and so various, and Volume Two of the Letters fully demonstrates the emerging continuities between poet, essayist, editor and letter-writer.


Book Description


The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 2: 1923-1925, edited by Valerie Eliot, covers the early years of T. S. Eliot's editorship of The Criterion, the publication of The Hollow Men and the course of Eliot's thinking about poetry and poetics after The Waste Land.


About the Author


Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in St Louis, Missouri, in 1888. He settled in England in 1915 and published his first book of poems in 1917. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Eliot died in 1965.

Valerie Eliot edited
T. S. Eliot: The Waste Land, a Facsimile & Transcript of the Original Drafts (1971) and
The Letters of T. S. Eliot, Volume 1: 1898-
1922 (1988),
Volume 2: 1923-
1925 (2009) and
Volume 3: 1926-
1927 (2011).

EAN: 9780571140817

Package Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.2 x 2.6 inches

Languages: English