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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 première at Vassar College of his comic melodrama Sweeney Agonistes (1932). The year '

The Letters of T S Eliot Volume 6 19321933

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      Publisher: Faber & Faber
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 18/02/2016
      ISBN13: 9780571316342, 978-0571316342
      ISBN10: 0571316344

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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 première at Vassar College of his comic melodrama Sweeney Agonistes (1932). The year '

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