{"product_id":"eliot-after-the-waste-land","title":"Eliot : After the Waste Land","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe second volume of Robert Crawford's magisterial biography of the revolutionary modernist, visionary poet and troubled man, drawing on extensive new sources.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In this compelling and meticulous portrait of the twentieth century's most important poet, Robert Crawford completes the story he began in \u003ci\u003eYoung Eliot\u003c\/i\u003e. Drawing on extensive new sources and letters, this is the first full-scale biography to make use of Eliot's most significant surviving correspondence, including the archive of letters (unsealed for the first time in 2020) detailing his decades-long love affair with Emily Hale.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e This long-awaited second volume, \u003ci\u003eEliot After 'The Waste\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eLand'\u003c\/i\u003e, tells the story of the mature Eliot, his years as a world-renowned writer and intellectual, and his troubled interior life.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e From his time as an exhausted bank employee after the publication of \u003ci\u003eThe Waste Land\u003c\/i\u003e, through the emotional turmoil of the 1920s and 1930s, and his years as a firewatcher in bombed wartime London, Crawford reveals the public and personal experiences that helped generate some of Eliot's masterpieces.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e He explores the poet's religious conversion, his editorship at Faber and Faber, his separation from Vivien Haigh-Wood and happy second marriage to Valerie Fletcher, and his great work \u003ci\u003eFour Quartets\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Robert Crawford presents this complex and remarkable man not as a literary monument but as a human being- as a husband, lover and widower, as a banker, editor, playwright and publisher, but most of all as an epoch-shaping poet struggling to make art among personal disasters.","brand":"Unity Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43818998890693,"sku":"","price":40.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/6679\/3413\/files\/Eliot_20after_20the_20Waste_20Land.jpg?v=1720415456","url":"https:\/\/unitybooks.myshopify.com\/products\/eliot-after-the-waste-land","provider":"Unity Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}