The Letters of T. S. Eliot: Volume 5: 1930-1931 by T. S. Eliot, Valerie Eliot, John Haffenden

By T. S. Eliot, Valerie Eliot, John Haffenden

This 5th quantity of the gathered letters of poet, playwright, essayist, and literary critic Thomas Stearns Eliot covers the years 1930 via 1931. It used to be in this interval that the acclaimed American-born author earnestly embraced his newly avowed Anglo-Catholic religion, a call that earned him the antagonism of acquaintances like Virginia Woolf and Herbert learn. additionally evidenced in those correspondences is Eliot’s becoming estrangement from his spouse Vivien, with the writer’s newfound commitment to the Anglican Church exacerbating the disappointment of an already tormented union.
 
but regardless of his own trials, this era was once one in every of nice literary task for Eliot. In 1930 he composed the poems Ash-Wednesday and Marina, and released Coriolan and a translation of Saint-John Perse’s Anabase the subsequent year. As director on the British publishing condo Faber & Faber and editor of The Criterion, he inspired W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender, Louis MacNeice, and Ralph Hogdson, released James Joyce’s Haveth Childers Everywhere, and grew to become down a booklet concept from Eric Blair, higher recognized via his pen identify, George Orwell. via Eliot’s correspondences from this time the reader will get a full-bodied view of an exceptional artist at a private, specialist, and religious crossroads. 

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F&F F&G MC N. indd liv 16/09/2014 17:28 BD CWE EVE HWE TSE VHE GCF MHW JDH MH AH JJ GWK DHL FRL WL FVM OM JMM EP HR IAR BLR ALR BR ES WFS CW OW LW VW WBY Arkansas BBC Beinecke Bonamy Dobrée Charlotte Ware Eliot, TSE’s mother (Esmé) Valerie Eliot Henry Ware Eliot (TSE’s brother) T. S. Eliot Vivien (Haigh-Wood) Eliot Geoffrey (Cust) Faber Maurice Haigh-Wood John Davy Hayward Mary Hutchinson Aldous Huxley James Joyce G. Wilson Knight D. H. Lawrence F. R. Leavis Wyndham Lewis Frank (Vigor) Morley Ottoline Morrell John Middleton Murry Ezra Pound Herbert Read I.

Introduces the Irish writer Seán Ó’Faoláin to various literary editors. mid-october – entertains at home Willard Thorp and his wife. 19 october – TSE tells his brother-in-law, ‘The situation is that Vivienne is extremely hard up at present, owing to the fall in the dividends of securities and not having yet reduced her expenditure to fit. ’ 28 october – TSE writes to Hutchinson: ‘No, Vivienne is not more ill . . I mean there is no particular acute problem at the moment, only the permanent one .

Indd xxxii 16/09/2014 17:28 should be no biography and bypassing it by laying down all the very best building blocks of a biography. ’ And just a few months later again, in August 1966, she advised Giroux: ‘[Tom] has made a definite ruling [against a biography] and I cannot go against his wishes. ’ Ironically, such declarations came close to disobedience: if letters are an essential part of the materials of biography – indeed, Valerie sometimes referred to the letters she was accumulating as ‘material’ – she took infinite pains to be the helpmeet of a future biographer: gathering the raw materials whilst she may.

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