T S Eliot : An Imperfect Life

Lyndall Gordon

ISBN 10: 0099742217 / ISBN 13: 9780099742210

Published by Vintage Books, London, 1998

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Title: T S Eliot : An Imperfect Life

Publisher: Vintage Books, London

Publication Date: 1998

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: 13855888

Signed: 10/2/2024 1:01:32 PM

Edition: 1727874092.

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Synopsis:

Lyndall Gordon traces Eliot's journey across the 'waste land' to his conversion to Anglo-Catholicism at the age of 38. The American influences of his youth are emphasized, and the shadowy period from 1910 to 1914 in Paris and Boston emerges as a time of acute stress, of conflicting sexual and religious fantasies. 'The Waste Land' goes back to this time, and the author shows how the poem evolved from private meditations, later masked by the contemporary scenes that made it appear so dazzlingly modern. Gordon also traces Eliot's search for a 'new life' during the last 38 years of his life. This volume is a condensed and updated version of the two books previously publshed as ELIOT'S EARLY YEARS and ELIOT'S NEW LIFE.

Synopsis:

Lyndall Gordon traces T.S. Eliot's journey across the "waste land" to his conversion to Anglo-Catholicism at the age of 38, emphasizing the American influences of his youth. It also traces Eliot's search for a "new life" during the last 38 years of his life.