T.S. Eliot: A Life
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Few figures in modern literature cast as long a shadow as T.S. Eliot — poet, critic, playwright, and the man who irrevocably altered the course of twentieth-century verse. Peter Ackroyd's authoritative biography chronicles the full arc of Eliot's extraordinary life, from his origins in St. Louis, Missouri, through his transformation into the quintessential voice of English literary modernism, tracing the private anguish and intellectual brilliance that produced masterworks such as The Waste Land and Four Quartets. Ackroyd brings his considerable gifts as a novelist and cultural historian to bear on a subject of remarkable complexity, illuminating the paradoxes at the heart of Eliot's character — the American who became more English than the English, the deeply private man who shaped the most public of literary conversations. With meticulous research and vivid prose, this biography presents Eliot not merely as a canonical monument, but as a flawed, searching human being whose struggles with faith, identity, and marriage gave his poetry its searing, inexhaustible power. For anyone who has ever felt the pull of The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, this portrait demands to be read.
Author: Peter Ackroyd
Format: Hardback
Published: 1984, Simon & Schuster
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Few figures in modern literature cast as long a shadow as T.S. Eliot — poet, critic, playwright, and the man who irrevocably altered the course of twentieth-century verse. Peter Ackroyd's authoritative biography chronicles the full arc of Eliot's extraordinary life, from his origins in St. Louis, Missouri, through his transformation into the quintessential voice of English literary modernism, tracing the private anguish and intellectual brilliance that produced masterworks such as The Waste Land and Four Quartets. Ackroyd brings his considerable gifts as a novelist and cultural historian to bear on a subject of remarkable complexity, illuminating the paradoxes at the heart of Eliot's character — the American who became more English than the English, the deeply private man who shaped the most public of literary conversations. With meticulous research and vivid prose, this biography presents Eliot not merely as a canonical monument, but as a flawed, searching human being whose struggles with faith, identity, and marriage gave his poetry its searing, inexhaustible power. For anyone who has ever felt the pull of The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, this portrait demands to be read.