This volume covers the production of Eliot’s play
The Family Reunion; the publication of
The Idea of a Christian Society; and the joyous versifying of
Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats. After exhausting himself through nights of fire-watching in the London wartime blackout, he travels the country, attends meetings of The Moot, delivers talks, and advises a fresh generation of writers including Cyril Connolly, Keith Douglas, Kathleen Raine and Vernon Watkins.
Major correspondents include W. H. Auden, George Barker, William Empson, Geoffrey Faber, John Hayward, James Laughlin, Hope Mirrlees, Mervyn Peake, Ezra Pound, Michael Roberts, Stephen Spender, Tambimuttu, Allen Tate, Michael Tippett, Charles Williams and Virginia Woolf
Four Quartets, Eliot’s culminating masterpiece, is discussed in detail.
| Format |
Inbunden |
| Omfång |
1144 sidor |
| Språk |
Engelska |
| Förlag |
Faber & Faber |
| Utgivningsdatum |
2021-09-02 |
| ISBN |
9780571362813 |
