Inventions of the March Hare (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: T. S. Eliot
- First Published: 1997
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: Self-discovery, Racism, Sexism, England or English people, Anti-Semitism, Symbolism, London
Tom Eliot published his first poem in his prep school’s literary magazine in 1905. Four years later, he became a poet. Eight years after that, with the publication of Prufrock and Other Observations (1917), he became T. S. Eliot. Inventions of the March Hare is a major literary event because it allows its readers to watch this development, to accompany the callow young man from St. Louis as he discovers the voice and vision that would make him the most influential poet in English of the first half of the twentieth century.
The handful of poems that Eliot published...
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