{"product_id":"eliot-after-the-waste-land-paperback","title":"Eliot After the Waste Land - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRobert Crawford\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eYoung Eliot: From St. Louis to \"The Waste Land\"\u003c\/i\u003e was hailed as \"exceptional\" and \"assiduous\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e). Robert Crawford's meticulous, incisive scholarship continues in \u003ci\u003eEliot After \"The Waste Land\"\u003c\/i\u003e, an invaluable record of the revolutionary modernist, visionary poet, and troubled man.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAfter being kept from the public for more than fifty years, the letters between T. S. Eliot and his longtime love and muse Emily Hale were unsealed in 2020. Drawing on these intimate exchanges and on countless interviews and archives, as well as on Eliot's own poetry and prose, the award-winning biographer Robert Crawford completes the narrative he began in \u003ci\u003eYoung Eliot\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eEliot After \"The Waste \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eLand\"\u003c\/i\u003e, the long-awaited second volume of Crawford's magisterial, meticulous portrait of the twentieth century's most significant poet, tells the story of the mature Eliot during his years as a world-renowned writer and intellectual, including his complex interior life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChronicling Eliot's time as an exhausted bank employee after the publication of \u003ci\u003eThe Waste Land \u003c\/i\u003ethrough the emotional turmoil of the 1920s and 1930s and his years as a firewatcher in bombed wartime London, Crawford shows us the public and personal experiences that helped inspire Eliot's later masterpieces. Crawford describes the poet's conversion to Anglo-Catholicism, his separation from Vivien Haigh-Wood and his happy second marriage to Valerie Fletcher, his editorship at Faber and Faber, his Nobel Prize, his great work \u003ci\u003eFour Quartets\u003c\/i\u003e, and his adventures in the theater. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCrawford presents this complex and remarkable man not as a literary monument but as a human being: as husband, lover, and widower; as banker, editor, playwright, and publisher; and most of all as an epoch-shaping poet struggling to make art amid personal disasters.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert Crawford \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of \u003ci\u003eYoung Eliot: From St. Louis to \"The Waste Land\"\u003c\/i\u003e. He is also the author of \u003ci\u003eScotland's Books\u003c\/i\u003e and the coeditor of \u003ci\u003eThe Penguin Book of Scottish Verse\u003c\/i\u003e. A fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, of the British Academy, and of the Royal Society of Literature, he is an emeritus professor of modern Scottish literature at the University of St. Andrews. \u003ci\u003eThe Bard\u003c\/i\u003e, his biography of Robert Burns, was named the Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year in 2009. Crawford's eight poetry collections include \u003ci\u003eTestament \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eFull Volume\u003c\/i\u003e, the latter of which was short-listed for the T. S. Eliot Prize. He lives in Scotland.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 640\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.42 x 8.25 x 5.38 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 22, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51776846528800,"sku":"9781250872814","price":28.08,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/b45e84a37cdb72977960d8d985191c45.webp?v=1780487524","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/eliot-after-the-waste-land-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}