This is an account of T.S.Eliot's early life and works, which attempts to provide, not only a biographical profile of the poet's early years, but also a critical analysis of the poetry of those years, most notably "The Wasteland". Lyndall Gordon is author of "Virginia Woolf" and "Eliot's New Life". She won the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize 1978, for "Eliot's Early Years".
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Excellent companion to "The Waste Land",
By Mass Hysteria (Minneapolis, MN) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Eliot's Early Years (Paperback)
I teach "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" in my high school classes, but "The Waste Land" has always been a complete mystery to me. This book, a hybrid of biography and literary criticism, enabled me to understand a large chunk of the poem. It turns out, according to Gordon, that "The Waste Land" is a sort of spiritual clearinghouse for Eliot's religious and personal reflection. I now think it's impossible to adequately interact with the poem without a basic understanding of Eliot's religious philosophy and his personal life. Gordon uses many of Eliot's unpublished poems to illuminate these facets of his life and thought. As such I found it very useful, although it was not an easy read. (The language is rather dry and academic.) Still, I recommend it highly for anyone interested in tackling "The Waste Land."
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