Young Eliot
From St Louis to The Waste Land
- Paperback
528 pages
- Release Date
18 April 2016
Summary
A biography exploring the early years of the twentieth century’s greatest poet.Published simultaneously in Britain and America to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the death of T. S. Eliot, this major biography traces the life of the twentieth century’s most important poet from his childhood in the ragtime city of St Louis right up to the publication of his most famous poem, The Waste Land. Meticulously detailed and incisively written, Young Eliot portrays a brilliant, shy and wounded American…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099554950 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 009955495X |
| Author: | Robert Crawford |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 528 |
| Release Date: | 18 April 2016 |
| Weight: | 385g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 33mm |
| Series: | Eliot Biographies |
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Critics Review
Young Eliot marks both a milestone and a turning point… [It] is judicious, sympathetic, meticulous…. The story it tells of a great poet’s early life is enthralling.
Young Eliot marks both a milestone and a turning point… [It] is judicious, sympathetic, meticulous…. The story it tells of a great poet’s early life is enthralling. – Robert McCrum * Observer *
This is an exemplary book… I look forward to the second volume eagerly. – Stuart Kelly * Scotsman *
A masterful biography of the canonical modernist… Drawing on sources not available to previous biographers, the author fashions an authoritative, nuanced portrait… Although Crawford modestly claims that his biography is neither “official” nor definitive, it is unlikely to be surpassed. * Kirkus *
Crawford’s superb biography, of which this is the first of two volumes, must now be regarded as the standard work. It does not diminish or tarnish Eliot’s reputation. On the contrary, it makes one want to return to the poems and read them again and again. – Alan Taylor * Herald *
Crawford’s case is sensitive and compelling, and his account – especially of Eliot’s childhood and student years – is more richly detailed than any previous biographer’s…. A powerful and enlightening book. – John Carey * Sunday Times *
[An] excellent account of the poet as a young man. – Philip Collins * The Times *
Beautifully told. – Robert Sutcliffe * Huddersfield Daily Examiner *
[Crawford] is a reliable and succinctly guide to the many intellectual influences that shaped [Eliot]. – Seamus Perry * Literary Review *
This is very much what a literary biography should be. It is likely to be a while before the next volume…but it will be worth the wait if it does what this first book does: to offer a credible and three-dimensional portrait of this most elusive figure. – Rowan Williams * New Statesman *
Crawford has produced a nuanced portrait of Eliot’s greatness. – Lyndall Gordon, 4 stars * Sunday Telegraph *
About The Author
Robert Crawford
Robert 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.
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