The Letters of T. S. Eliot
1932-1933
(Sprache: Englisch)
The Letters of T. S. Eliot series provides a vivid and personal documentation of T. S. Eliot's most crucial years, both in his private and public life.
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The Letters of T. S. Eliot series provides a vivid and personal documentation of T. S. Eliot's most crucial years, both in his private and public life.
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A vivid and personal documentation of T. S. Eliot's most crucial years, both in his private and public life.
Despairing of his volatile, unstable marriage, T. S. Eliot, at 44, resolves to put an end to his eighteen-year union with Vivien Haigh-Wood Eliot.
To begin with, he distances himself from her for nine months, from September 1932, by becoming Norton Lecturer at Harvard University. His lectures will be published as The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism(1933). He also delivers the Page-Barbour Lectures at Virginia (After Strange Gods, 1934). At Christmas he visits Emily Hale, to whom he is 'obviously devoted'. He gives talks all over - New York, California, Missouri, Minnesota, Chicago - and the letters describing encounters with F. Scott Fitzgerald, Edmund Wilson and Marianne Moore ('a real Gillette blade') brim with gossip. High points include the première at Vassar College of his comic melodrama Sweeney Agonistes (1932). The year 'was the happiest I canever remember in my life . . . successful and amusing.'
Returning home, he seeks refuge with friends in the country while making known to Vivien his decision to leave her. But he is exasperated when she buries herself in denial: she will not accept a Deed of Separation.
The close of 1933 is lifted when Eliot 'breaks into Show Business'. He is commissioned to write a 'mammoth Pageant': The Rock. This collaborative enterprise will be the proving-ground for the choric triumph of Murder in the Cathedral (1935).
Autoren-Porträt von T. S. Eliot
Eliot, T. S.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.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: T. S. Eliot
- 2016, 896 Seiten, Gebunden, Englisch
- Herausgegeben:Haffenden, John
- Verlag: Faber & Faber
- ISBN-10: 0571316344
- ISBN-13: 9780571316342
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Englisch
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