Things Ill-Done and Undone
Helen Thaventhiran: T.S. Eliot’s Alibis, 8 September 2022
Eliot after ‘The Waste Land’
by Robert Crawford.
Cape, 609 pp., £25, June,978 0 224 09389 7 Show More
by Robert Crawford.
Cape, 609 pp., £25, June,
“... a figure of primarily biographical interest (‘the “life” without the “literature”’, as Barbara Everett put it), there was a weary familiarity to discussions of the relation between his work and his biography. Without capitulating to the sensationalism of the romance plot, Crawford demonstrates that the letters refresh our sense of Eliot because ... ”