{"product_id":"2026200012868-secondhand-the-letters-of-t-s-eliot-volume-i-1898-1922","title":"The Letters Of T. S. Eliot: Volume I, 1898–1922","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Very good\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew literary figures cast as long a shadow over the twentieth century as T. S. Eliot, and The Letters of T. S. Eliot, Volume I: 1898–1922 offers an unparalleled window into the formative years of the man who would reshape modern poetry. Meticulously edited by Valerie Eliot, this first volume chronicles the poet's correspondence from his childhood through to the landmark year of 1922 — the very year he published The Waste Land — illuminating the intellectual, personal, and professional forces that shaped one of literature's most towering figures.\n\nThis collection presents Eliot in his own words: restless, brilliant, and often surprisingly vulnerable, navigating the literary salons of London, his complex relationships with Ezra Pound and other modernist contemporaries, and the inner turmoil that fed his greatest work. Valerie Eliot's editorial stewardship is both rigorous and sensitive, providing context that transforms these letters from private documents into essential literary history. For scholars and devoted readers alike, this volume is not merely a biographical supplement — it is the missing key to understanding the architecture of a modern masterpiece.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49203282149595,"sku":"2026200012868-SECONDHAND","price":25.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/284e80b7-597c-47d9-9b3c-a036a17348de.png?v=1788147457","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200012868-secondhand-the-letters-of-t-s-eliot-volume-i-1898-1922","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}