The Letters of T. S. Eliot: Volume 1: 1898-1922 Volume 1 - Hardcover

"[A] vast treasure house . . . Eliot's letters are like what he once called poetry itself: the highest form of entertainment."--Anthony Brandt--Anthony Brandt

"[Eliot's] success is an improbable and amazing story, and the publication, in two volumes, of his correspondence from 1898 to 1925 . . . lets us watch that story as it was unfolding, day by day, from the inside."--Louis Menand, New Yorker--Louis Menand "New Yorker "

"Weirdly gripping . . . one never knows when one might be stopped dead by a letter of singular importance."--James Longenbach, The Nation--James Longenbach "The Nation "

"Better than any biography could, these letters capture the unremitting nature of Eliot's anxieties, without which he would not have written his greatest poems."--Abigail Deutsch, Wall Street Journal--Abigail Deutsch "Wall Street Journal "

"These letters do reveal the anxieties boiled down into The Waste Land. They also show us the graces this browbeaten life possessed."--William Logan, New York Times Book Review--William Logan "New York Times Book Review "

"[Of] inestimable value . . . long-awaited [and] definitive."--Jeff Simon, Buffalo News--Jeff Simon "Buffalo News "

"In these adroitly annotated volumes, the poet's conquest of literary London is brought brilliantly to life."--Edward Short, Weekly Standard--Edward Short "Weekly Standard "

"[A] trove of important correspondence . . . Taken together these volumes reveal the personal, economic, and social exigencies that impacted Eliot and his work and provide new, detailed literary history of Eliot and his age."--L.L./I>--L.L. Johnson "Choice "

"These two absorbing volumes . . . will fascinate every lover of literature, not just poetry."--Benjamin Ivry, San Francisco Chronicle--Benjamin Ivry "San Francisco Chronicle "

"[A] retrospective tome of introspective delight . . . Intimate revelations . . . A candid portrait of an artist as a young man."--Publishers Weekly--Publishers Weekly