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Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 7: 1934-1935, The
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hardcover. Having separated from his wife Vivien in 1933, he is anxious to avoid running into her; but she refuses to comprehend that her husband has chosen to leave her and stalks him across literary society, leading to his place of work at the offices of Faber & Faber. This book features letters from author that deals with his life and career. Series: Letters of T. S. Eliot. Num Pages: 960 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; BJ; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 153. .
T. S. Eliot's career as a successful stage dramatist gathers pace throughout the fascinating letters of this volume. Following his early experimentation with the dark comedy Sweeney Agonistes (1932), Eliot is invited to write the words of an ambitious scenario sketched out by the producer-director E. Martin Browne (who was to direct all of Eliot's plays) for a grand pageant called The Rock (1934). The ensuing applause leads to a commission from the Bishop of Chichester to write a play for the Canterbury Festival, resulting in the quasi-liturgical masterpiece of dramatic writing, Murder in the Cathedral ... Read more
T. S. Eliot's career as a successful stage dramatist gathers pace throughout the fascinating letters of this volume. Following his early experimentation with the dark comedy Sweeney Agonistes (1932), Eliot is invited to write the words of an ambitious scenario sketched out by the producer-director E. Martin Browne (who was to direct all of Eliot's plays) for a grand pageant called The Rock (1934). The ensuing applause leads to a commission from the Bishop of Chichester to write a play for the Canterbury Festival, resulting in the quasi-liturgical masterpiece of dramatic writing, Murder in the Cathedral ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
New
Series
Letters of T. S. Eliot
Number of Pages
1002
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571316366
SKU
9780571316366
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About T.S. Eliot
Valerie Eliot edited T. S. Eliot: The Waste Land, a Facsimile & Transcript of the Original Drafts (1971) and The Letters of T. S. Eliot, Volume 1: 1898-1922 (1988), Volume 2: 1923-1925 (2009), Volume 3: 1926-1927 (2011), Volume 4: 1928-1929 (2013), Volume 5: 1930-1931 (2014) and Volume 6: 1932-1933 (2016). Valerie Eliot died in 2012. John Haffenden ... Read more
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