T. S. Eliot: An Imperfect Life

by Lyndall Gordon

Book Overview

In this "nuanced, discerning account of a life famously flawed in its search for perfection" (The New Yorker), Gordon captures Eliot's "complex spiritual and artistic history . . . with tact, diligence, and subtlety" (Boston Globe). Drawing on recently discovered letters, she addresses in full the issue of Eliot's anti-Semitism as well as the less-noted issue of his misogyny. Her account "rescues both the poet and the man from the simplifying abstractions...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393320936
• ISBN13: 9780393320930
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 754 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.5" x 8.3"