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