The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 9

1939–1941

T S Eliot author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Faber & Faber

Published:2nd Sep '21

£60.00

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The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 9 cover

Eliot sheds his 'usually reticent self' and the 'hilarious bleakness' he feels in wartime London to compose these entertaining and revealing letters - the latest in this exemplary series.

Auden, George Barker, William Empson, Geoffrey Faber, John Hayward, James Laughlin, Hope Mirrlees, Mervyn Peake, Ezra Pound, Michael Roberts, Stephen Spender, Tambimuttu, Allen Tate, Michael Tippett, Charles Williams and Virginia Woolf.This volume covers the production of Eliot's play The Family Reunion; the publication of The Idea of a Christian Society; and the joyous versifying of Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. After exhausting himself through nights of fire-watching in the London wartime blackout, he travels the country, attends meetings of The Moot, delivers talks, and advises a fresh generation of writers including Cyril Connolly, Keith Douglas, Kathleen Raine and Vernon Watkins. Major correspondents include W. H. Auden, George Barker, William Empson, Geoffrey Faber, John Hayward, James Laughlin, Hope Mirrlees, Mervyn Peake, Ezra Pound, Michael Roberts, Stephen Spender, Tambimuttu, Allen Tate, Michael Tippett, Charles Williams and Virginia Woolf. Four Quartets, Eliot's culminating masterpiece, is discussed in detail.

ISBN: 9780571362813

Dimensions: 240mm x 165mm x 50mm

Weight: 1480g

1144 pages

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