Feast of St Thomas
Frank Kermode
- Eliot’s New Life by Lyndall Gordon
Oxford, 356 pp, £15.00, September 1988, ISBN 0 19 811727 2 - The Letters of T.S. Eliot edited by Valerie Eliot
Faber, 618 pp, £25.00, September 1988, ISBN 0 571 13621 4 - The Poetics of Impersonality by Maud Ellmann
Harvester, 207 pp, £32.50, January 1988, ISBN 0 7108 0463 6 - T.S. Eliot and the Philosophy of Criticism by Richard Shusterman
Duckworth, 236 pp, £19.95, February 1988, ISBN 0 7156 2187 4 - ‘The Men of 1914’: T.S. Eliot and Early Modernism by Erik Svarny
Open University, 268 pp, £30.00, September 1988, ISBN 0 335 09019 2 - Eliot, Joyce and Company by Stanley Sultan
Oxford, 326 pp, £25.00, March 1988, ISBN 0 19 504880 6 - The Savage and the City in the Work of T.S. Eliot by Robert Crawford
Oxford, 251 pp, £25.00, December 1987, ISBN 0 19 812869 X - T.S. Eliot: The Poems by Martin Scofield
Cambridge, 264 pp, £25.00, March 1988, ISBN 0 521 30147 5
‘The idea that Eliot’s poetry was rooted in private aspects of his life has now been accepted,’ says Lyndall Gordon in the Foreword to her second volume of biographical rooting among these aspects. This acceptance, which she evidently approves, has undoubtedly occurred, as a root through the enormous heap of books about the poet, now augmented by the centenary of his birth, will quickly demonstrate.
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[*] Frederick Tomlin, in his memoir of a long, respectful and predominantly churchy acquaintance with the poet, describes his reaction to Peter (T.S. Eliot: A Friendship, Routledge, 288 pp., £19.95, 22 September, 0 415 025125 5).
Vol. 10 No. 17 · 29 September 1988 » Frank Kermode » Feast of St Thomas (print version)
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