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The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 3: 1926-1927 (Hardcover, Main)
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The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 3: 1926-1927 (Hardcover, Main)
Series: Letters of T. S. Eliot
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In the period covered by this richly detailed collection, which
brings the poet to the age of forty, T.S. Eliot was to set a new
course for his life and work. Forsaking the Unitarianism of his
American forebears, he was received into the Church of England and
naturalised as a British citizen - a radical and public alteration
of the intellectual and spiritual direction of his career. The
demands of Eliot's professional life as writer and editor became
more complex and exacting during these years. The celebrated but
financially-pressed periodical he had been editing since 1922 - The
Criterion - switched between being a quarterly and a monthly,
before being rescued by the fledgling house of Faber & Gwyer.
In addition to writing numerous essays and editorials, lectures,
reviews, introductions and prefaces, his letters show Eliot
involving himself wholeheartedly in the business of his new career
as a publisher. His Ariel poems, Journey of the Magi (1927) and A
Song for Simeon (1928) established a new manner and vision for the
poet of The Waste Land and 'The Hollow Men'. These are also the
years in which Eliot published two sections of an exhilaratingly
funny, savage, jazz-influenced play-in-verse - 'Fragment of a
Prologue' and 'Fragment of an Agon' - which were subsequently
brought together as Sweeney Agonistes. In addition, he struggled to
translate the remarkable work Anabase, by St.-John Perse, which was
to be a signal influence upon his own later poetry. This
correspondence with friends and mentors vividly documents all the
stages of Eliot's personal and artistic transformation during these
crucial years, the continuing anxieties of his private life, and
the forging of his public reputation.
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