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cemoses's review against another edition
5.0
I liked this book very much even though I did not know much about his or poetry. Robert Crawford was able to draw a dynamic picture of T.S. Eliot even though Eliot destroyed alot of material from his early years.
hoboken's review
4.0
TS Eliot from birth to The Waste Land. Hardly a detail has been left out, filling in many gaps usually ignored about Eliot's childhood, education, first sad marriage, and early poetry. If you love Eliot as I do--the first place I heard of a mysterious substance called curry or the elegant name Lavinia or the word scenario or the wonderful silly English repartee--"The only person I ever met who could hear the cry of bats. Hear the cry of bats? He could hear the cry of bats. Buts how do you know he could hear the cry of bats? Because he said so, and I believed him, But if he was so . . . harmless, how could you believe him? He might have imagined it. My darling Celia, you needn't be so skeptical. I *stayed* there once, at their castle in the North. How he suffered. They had to find an island for him where there were no bats."
We have to wait until 2020 when the letters of the American girl he was really in love with but who wouldn't have him will be made public for the second volume. Meanwhile read this and listen to the wonderful recording, if it still exists, of The Cocktail Party, from which the above is excerpted, with Alec Guiness as Alexander MacColgie Gibbs.
We have to wait until 2020 when the letters of the American girl he was really in love with but who wouldn't have him will be made public for the second volume. Meanwhile read this and listen to the wonderful recording, if it still exists, of The Cocktail Party, from which the above is excerpted, with Alec Guiness as Alexander MacColgie Gibbs.
francescacorin's review
It was overdue from the library and I stopped reaching for it!
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