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Volume Two covers the early years of his editorship of The Criterion (the periodical that Eliot launched with Lady Rothermere's backing in 1922), publication of The Hollow Men and the course of Eliot's thinking about poetry and poetics after The Waste Land. The correspondence charts Eliot's intellectual journey towards conversion to the Anglican faith in 1927, as well as his transformation from banker to publisher, ending with his appointment as a director of the new publishing house of Faber + Gwyer (later becoming Faber + Faber), in late 1925, and the appearance of Poems 1909-1925, Eliot's first publication with the house with which he would be associated for the rest of his life. It was partly because of Eliot's profoundly influential work as cultural commentator and editor that the correspondence is so prolific and so various, and Volume Two of the Letters fully demonstrates the emerging continuities between poet, essayist, editor and letter-writer.

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Author won Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948

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Volume One of the Letters of T. S. Eliot, edited by Valerie Eliot in 1988, covered the period from Eliot

Author Biography

T.S. Eliot was born in St Louis, Missouri in 1888. He settled in England in 1915, the year in which he married Vivienne Haigh-Wood. In 1919 Poems was hand-printed by Leonard and Virginia Woolf. His first collection of essays, The Sacred Wood, appeared in 1920. His most famous work, The Waste Land, was published in 1922. The poem was included in the first issue of his journal The Criterion, which he founded and edited. Three years later he became a director of Faber and Gwyer, later Faber and Faber. His Poems 1909-25 was one of the original titles published by Geoffrey Faber's new firm, and the basis of his standard Collected Poems 1909-1962. Ash Wednesday was published in 1930. In 1939 The Family Reunion and his children's classic Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats were published. His masterpiece Four Quartets began with 'Burnt Norton' in 1936, continued with 'East Coker'

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The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 2: 1923-1925, edited by Valerie Eliot, covers the early years of T. S. Eliot's editorship of The Criterion, the publication of The Hollow Men and the course of Eliot's thinking about poetry and poetics after The Waste Land.

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Volume Two covers the early years of his editorship of The Criterion (the periodical that Eliot launched with Lady Rothermere's backing in 1922), publication of The Hollow Men and the course of Eliot's thinking about poetry and poetics after The Waste Land. The correspondence charts Eliot's intellectual journey towards conversion to the Anglican faith in 1927, as well as his transformation from banker to publisher, ending with his appointment as a director of the new publishing house of Faber + Gwyer (later becoming Faber + Faber), in late 1925, and the appearance of Poems 1909-1925, Eliot's first publication with the house with which he would be associated for the rest of his life. It was partly because of Eliot's profoundly influential work as cultural commentator and editor that the correspondence is so prolific and so various, and Volume Two of the Letters fully demonstrates the emerging continuities between poet, essayist, editor and letter-writer.

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The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 2: 1923-1925 , edited by Valerie Eliot, covers the early years of T. S. Eliot's editorship of The Criterion , the publication of The Hollow Men and the course of Eliot's thinking about poetry and poetics after The Waste Land .

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