T.S. Eliot : the making of an American poet, 1888-1922
"Miller challenges long-held assumptions about Eliot's poetry and his life. Eliot himself always maintained that his poems were not based on personal experience, and thus should not be read as personal poems. But Miller combines a reading of the early work - from his earliest poems through 1922, the year The Waste Land was published - with careful analysis of surviving early correspondence, accounts from Eliot's friends and acquaintances, and new scholarship that delves into Eliot's Harvard years. Ultimately, Miller demonstrates that Eliot's poetry is filled with reflections of his personal experiences; his relationships with family and friends; his marriage; his sexuality; his intellectual and social development; his influences."--Jacket
Print Book, English, ©2005
Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park, Pa., ©2005
collective biographies
xx, 468 pages ; 24 cm
9780271026817, 9780271027623, 0271026812, 0271027622
58043498
1888-1906: Origins
1902-1914: Early influences
1906-1911: Harvard: out from under
1906-1910: Harvard influences: teachers, texts, temptations
1910-1911: T.S. Eliot in Paris
1911-1914: Eliot absorbed in philosophical studies
1914-1915: American chaos versus English tradition
1915: An inexplicable marriage and the consequences
1916: Making do, finding means, expanding connections
1917-1918: T.S. Eliot: Banker, lecturer, editor, poet, almost soldier
1919-1920: Up the ladder, glimpsing the top
1919-1921: Notable achievements, domestic disasters, intimate friends
1922: Over the top
A glance ahead: the making of an American poet