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

T.S. Eliot

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0571140815 ISBN 13: 9780571140817

Publisher: Faber & Faber, 2009

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in St Louis, Missouri, in 1888. He came to England in 1914 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).

About this edition

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0571140815
• ISBN 13: 9780571140817
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 912