Description
Book SynopsisRobert Crawford is a poet, biographer, critic and literary historian who has published eight full collections of poetry and many prose books, including two major biographies of T.S. Eliot:
Young Eliot and Eliot After The Waste Land. Emeritus Wardlaw Professor of Poetry at the University of St Andrews, he is a Fellow of the British Academy, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and a Foreign Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.
Trade ReviewExcellent... Full of voices, friendships and conflicts, Crawford's book is rich and dense as Christmas cake... [An] outstanding biography. -- Sean O'Brien * Daily Telegraph, *5-star review* *
Astonishing... This book is properly complex, both in terms of the art and the life. -- Stuart Kelly * Scotsman *
Crawford's work is impeccable...
[A] magisterial account... the tender, elegiac final notes of this book are...striking. -- Erica Wagner * New Statesman *
Excellent... Nothing is simple within this hefty, detailed narrative and Crawford remains impeccably fair...
[an] absorbing biography. -- Bel Mooney * Daily Mail, *Book of the Week* *
A thorough, solid sequel to Crawford's much-praised
Young Eliot...
This biography...is going to play a large part in any future assessment of Eliot. -- Philip Hensher * Spectator *
