T.S. Eliot

An Imperfect Life

By: Lyndall Gordon

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Paperback | 1 November 2000 | Edition Number 1

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Lyndall Gordon's biographical work on T. S. Eliot has won many dramatic accolades. 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 that have always been applied to him" (New York Times), and is "definitive but not dogmatic, sympathetic without taking sides. . . . Its voice rings with authority" (Baltimore Sun). Praised by Cynthia Ozick as "daring, strong, psychologically brilliant," Gordon's study remains true to the mysteries of art as she chronicles the poet's "insistent search for salvation."

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Non-Fiction Biographies & True Stories Biographies Literary Biographies Literature, Poetry & Plays History & Criticism of Literature Literary Studies of Poetry & Poets General Literary Studies Literary Studies from 1900 to Current

Foreword	p. vii
Illustrations	p. xi
Early Models	p. 1
A New England Student	p. 23
Beyond Philosophy	p. 51
Eliot's Ordeals	p. 95
'The horror! the horror!'	p. 147
Conversion	p. 192
Enter Beatrice	p. 233
The Mystery of Sin	p. 283
Enter the Furies	p. 312
The Perfect Life	p. 338
Lady of Silences	p. 392
Fame and Friends	p. 436
A Prophet's Mission	p. 472
Love: the Unfamiliar Name	p. 496
Appendices
Eliot's Reading in Mysticism	p. 537
Dating the Waste Land Fragments	p. 539
The Waste Land and Ulysses	p. 545
'Bellegarde' and Murder in the Cathedral	p. 548
The History of The Family Reunion	p. 551
Abbreviations	p. 554
Notes	p. 557
Acknowledgements	p. 671
Biographical Sources	p. 677
Index	p. 699
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