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The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 6: 1932-1933 (Hardcover, Main) Loot Price: R1,092
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The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 6: 1932-1933 (Hardcover, Main): John Haffenden

The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 6: 1932-1933 (Hardcover, Main)

John Haffenden; T. S. Eliot

Series: Letters of T. S. Eliot

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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 premiere at Vassar College of his comic melodrama Sweeney Agonistes (1932). The year 'was the happiest I can ever 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).

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Imprint: Faber and Faber
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Letters of T. S. Eliot
Release date: February 2016
Editors: John Haffenden
Authors: T. S. Eliot
Dimensions: 242 x 164 x 40mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 896
Edition: Main
ISBN-13: 978-0-571-31634-2
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Literary
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Essays, journals, letters & other prose works > General
Books > Biography > Literary
LSN: 0-571-31634-4
Barcode: 9780571316342

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