The Washington Post, September 25th, 1988
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 t...
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