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Becoming T. S. Eliot - The Rhetoric of Voice and Audience in Inventions of the March Hare (Hardcover)
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Becoming T. S. Eliot - The Rhetoric of Voice and Audience in Inventions of the March Hare (Hardcover)
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How did an ordinary, if intelligent, boy who wrote unremarkable
poems become-with no help, and in record time-the author of one of
the most significant and beloved poems of the twentieth century? T.
S. Eliot's juvenilia show little inclination to question the
social, cultural, religious, or domestic values he had inherited.
How did a young man who wrote uninspired doggerel about wilting
flowers transform himself-in a mere twenty months-into the author
of "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"? In Becoming T. S. Eliot,
Jayme Stayer-praised by Christopher Ricks as a scholar who is
"scrupulous in acknowledging the contingencies that will always
preclude perfection"-explains this staggering accomplishment by
tracing Eliot's artistic and intellectual development. Relying on
archival research and original analysis, this is the first book
dedicated entirely to Inventions of the March Hare, Eliot's
youthful notebook, which was once thought lost but was rediscovered
after Eliot's death. Stayer places Eliot's verses in the
chronological order of their composition, teasing out the
narratives of their making. Focusing on the period from 1909 to
1915, this incisive portrait of Eliot as a budding writer is as
much a study of Eliot himself as it is a study of how a writer
hones his voice.
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