Eliot After The Waste Land
Eliot After The Waste Land by Robert Crawford, published by Jonathan Cape in 2022, is the second volume of a comprehensive biography that delves into the life of T.S. Eliot, a pivotal figure in modernist poetry. This edition spans 624 pages and is presented in English, offering an in-depth exploration of Eliot’s journey following the publication of his seminal work, The Waste Land. Crawford draws on extensive new sources, including previously unsealed letters that illuminate Eliot’s complex relationships and his evolution as a writer and thinker.
In this detailed portrait, readers will find a narrative that covers Eliot’s experiences as a bank employee, his emotional struggles during the 1920s and 1930s, and his role as a firewatcher in wartime London. The biography examines significant events such as Eliot’s religious conversion, his editorial work at Faber and Faber, and his personal life, including his marriages and the creation of his notable work, Four Quartets. Crawford presents Eliot not merely as a literary figure but as a multifaceted individual navigating the challenges of life while producing influential poetry.
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The second volume of Robert Crawford’s magisterial biography of the revolutionary modernist, visionary poet and troubled man, drawing on extensive new sources.
In this compelling and meticulous portrait of the twentieth century’s most important poet, Robert Crawford completes the story he began in Young Eliot. Drawing on extensive new sources and letters, this is the first full-scale biography to make use of Eliot’s most significant surviving correspondence, including the archive of letters (unsealed for the first time in 2020) detailing his decades-long love affair with Emily Hale.
This long-awaited second volume, Eliot After ‘The Waste Land’, tells the story of the mature Eliot, his years as a world-renowned writer and intellectual, and his troubled interior life.
From his time as an exhausted bank employee after the publication of The Waste Land, through the emotional turmoil of the 1920s and 1930s, and his years as a firewatcher in bombed wartime London, Crawford reveals the public and personal experiences that helped generate some of Eliot’s masterpieces.
He explores the poet’s religious conversion, his editorship at Faber and Faber, his separation from Vivien Haigh-Wood and happy second marriage to Valerie Fletcher, and his great work Four Quartets.
Robert Crawford presents this complex and remarkable man not as a literary monument but as a human being: as a husband, lover and widower, as a banker, editor, playwright and publisher, but most of all as an epoch-shaping poet struggling to make art among personal disasters.
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