Eliot's New Life (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Lyndall Gordon
- First Published: 1988
- Type of Work: Literary biography
- Time of Work: 1927-1965
- Setting: Primarily England and the United States
- Principal Characters: T. S. Eliot, Vivienne Haigh-wood, Emily Hale, Mary Trevelyan, Valerie Fletcher
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: 1950’s, 1960’s, Love or romance, Twentieth century, Authors or writers, Literature, Art or artists, Marriage, Sin or Original sin, 1940’s, Religion, Poetry or poets, 1920’s, 1930’s, Mental illness, Celibacy
- Locales: United States, England
Lyndall Gordon's Eliot's Early Years, published in 1977, treats the first thirty-eight years of the poet's life, from his birth on September 22, 1888, until his conversion to Anglo-Catholicism in 1927. Gordon, who lectures in English and American literature at St. Hilda's College, University of Oxford, is primarily concerned with the ties between Eliot's life and work.
Eliot was born into an affluent St. Louis family, the lonely last child of elderly parents; his father was a brick manufacturer, his mother, a poet and a religious woman. At Harvard University, his...
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