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Authors: T. S. Eliot
The Letters of T. S. Eliot, Volume 1: 1898-1922 (174 page)
31 TSE and Henry at Itchenor, Sussex, 1921
32 Eleanor Hinkley, 1922
Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in St Louis, Missouri, in 1888. He came to England in 1914 and published his first book of poems in 1917. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Eliot died in 1965.
Valerie Eliot has edited
T. S. Eliot: The Waste Land, a Facsimile & Transcript of the Original Drafts
(1971) and
The Letters of T. S. Eliot, Volume I: 1898–1922
(1988; revised 2009) and
Volume II: 1923–1925
(2009).
Hugh Haughton is Professor of English at the University of York, author of
The Poetry of Derek Mahon
(2007) and editor of
Poetry of the Second World War
(2004). He is the co-editor (with Valerie Eliot) of
The Letters of T. S. Eliot
(2009).
John Haffenden is Research Professor of English Literature, University of Sheffield, and Senior Research Fellow, Institute of English Studies, University of London. He has edited several collections of the works of William Empson, including
The Complete Poems
(2000).
THE COMPLETE POEMS AND PLAYS
verse
COLLECTED POEMS
1909–1962
FOUR QUARTETS
THE WASTE LAND AND OTHER POEMS
THE WASTE LAND:
A Facsimile and Transcript of the Original Drafts
edited by Valerie Eliot
INVENTIONS OF THE MARCH HARE:
POEMS
1909–1917
edited by Christopher Ricks
SELECTED POEMS
plays
MURDER IN THE CATHEDRAL
THE FAMILY REUNION
THE COCKTAIL PARTY
THE CONFIDENTIAL CLERK
THE ELDER STATESMAN
literary criticism
THE SACRED WOOD
SELECTED ESSAYS
THE USE OF POETRY AND THE USE OF CRITICISM
VARIETIES OF METAPHYSICAL POETRY
edited by Ronald Schuchard
TO CRITICIZE THE CRITIC
ON POETRY AND POETS
FOR LANCELOT ANDREWES
SELECTED PROSE OF T. S. ELIOT
edited by Frank Kermode
social criticism
THE IDEA OF A CHRISTIAN SOCIETY
edited by David Edwards
NOTES TOWARDS THE DEFINITION OF CULTURE
letters
THE LETTERS OF T. S. ELIOT
Volume 1: 1898–1922
Revised Edition
edited by Valerie Eliot and Hugh Haughton
THE LETTERS OF T. S. ELIOT
Volume 2: 1923–1925
edited by Valerie Eliot and Hugh Haughton
This ebook edition published in 2011
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All writings by T. S. Eliot and the introduction and editorial material © Set Copyrights Limited 1988
All writings by Vivien Eliot © Valerie Eliot 1988
Copyright letters by the following are printed by permission of their respective Estates, Executors or publishers, as detailed in the Acknowledgements on pages xiii–xiv © 1988 Henry Ware Eliot, Ada Eliot Sheffield, Charlotte C. Eliot, Jean Verdenal, Alain-Fournier, Charles W. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Bertrand Russell, James H. Woods, Richard Aldington, André Gide and Sydney Schiff.
Previously unpublished letters by Ezra Pound copyright © 1988 the Trustees of the Ezra Pound Literary Property Trust, quoted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corporation and Faber and Faber Limited, agents for the Trust.
Quotations from
Selected Letters of Ezra Pound
edited by D. D. Paige by permission of New Directions and Faber and Faber.The quotation from Bertrand Russell’s
Principles of Social Reconstruction
is by permission of Unwin Hyman Limited and Allen and Unwin Inc.The right of Valerie Eliot to be identified as editor of this work has been asserted in accordance with Section 77 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988
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