The biographical study proceeds from Eliot's youth, covers his impulsive marriage, the idiosyncratic friendships with Ezra Pound and Virginia Woolf, the shadowy period of conflicting sexual and religious fantasies in Paris and Boston, and concludes with his conversion to Anglo-Catholicism...
This is an account of T.S.Eliot's early life and works, which attempts to provide, not only a biographical profile of the poet's early years, but also a critical analysis of the poetry of those years, most notably "The Wasteland". Lyndall Gordon is author of "Virginia Woolf"...