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Article: The Love Song of T.S. Eliot
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- September 25, 1988
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THE LETTERS OF T.S. ELIOT
Volume I, 1898-1922 Edited by Valerie Eliot
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. 639 pp. $29.95 ELIOT'S NEW LIFE By
Lyndall Gordon
Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 356 pp. $19.95
DURING HIS LIFETIME T.S. Eliot bestrode the literary world like a
colossus. From the publication of The Waste Land in 1922 until his
death in 1965 he was the chief literary poohbah of England and
America; in 1956 over 14,000 people jammed into a stadium in
Minnesota to hear him-or, more accurately, simply to see him;
literary histories spoke reverently of "The Age of Eliot."
After all, he was the author of the most admired poem of the
century, generally regarded as the greatest literary critic in ...