The Letters of T. S. Eliot: Volume 2: 1923-1925 (Volume 2)

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In two highly anticipated volumes the correspondence of the twentieth centurys eminent man of letters from youth to early manhood Volume One: 18981922 presents some 1 400 letters encompassing the years of Eliots childhood in St. Louis Missouri through 1922 by which time the poet had settled in England married his first wife and published The Waste Land. Since the first publication of this volume in 1988 many new materials from British and American sources have come to light. More than two hundred of these newly discovered letters are now included filling crucial gaps in the record and shedding new light on Eliots activities in London during and after the First World War. Volume Two: 19231925 covers the early years of Eliots editorship of The Criterion publication of The Hollow Men and his developing thought about poetry and poetics. The volume offers 1 400 letters charting Eliots journey toward conversion to the Anglican faith as well as his transformation from banker to publisher and his appointment as director of the new publishing house Faber & Gwyer. The prolific and various correspondence of this volume testifies to Eliots growing influence as cultural commentator and editor.