Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
T. S. Eliot
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Standard Name: Eliot, T. S.
Used Form: Thomas Stearns Eliot
TSE
, an American settled in England, was the dominant voice in English poetry during the first half of the twentieth century, as well as an immensely influential critic. His early experimental poems excel at catching an atmosphere or mood, often a moment of stasis and self-doubt. The Waste Land, a brilliant collage of fragments, has been seen to express the fears of a whole society about the threatened end of culture and amenity called civilization. After Eliot's conversion to Christianity his poetry moved to sombre investigations of the spiritual life: of time, fate, decision, guilt, and reconciliation. Meanwhile his criticism grappled with the the relation of past to present in terms of the contemporary relationship to tradition. TSE
also wrote lively comic verse, and in theatrical writing he moved on from pageant and historical religious drama to symbolic representation of spiritual issues through events in banal daily life.
T. S. Eliot
visited VW
for the first time, thereby beginning a lasting association.
Bishop, Edward. A Virginia Woolf Chronology. Macmillan.
47
Woolf, Virginia. The Diary of Virginia Woolf. Editors Bell, Anne Olivier and Andrew McNeillie, Hogarth Press.
1: 218-19
Friends, Associates
Virginia Woolf
T. S. Eliot
visited VW
and read The Waste Land to her from manuscript. She recorded in her diary her early impressions of the poem, which the Hogarth Press
published for the first time in...
Friends, Associates
Susan Miles
During her years at Bloomsbury, UR met the many distinguished literary figures who were either parishioners or readers at fund-raising events, like T. S. Eliot
, John Middleton Murry
, Edith Sitwell
, Wilfrid Meynell
Friends, Associates
Anne Ridler
Her brother was working for publishers George Bell
, and she met a number of authors, including Antonia White
and Margaret Kennedy
. Later, through her own work, she met with T. S. Eliot
's...
Friends, Associates
Hope Mirrlees
T. S. Eliot
became a paying guest of HM
, her mother
, and her aunt
at their home in Surrey. He stayed here intermittently for several years, though he was usually in London...
Friends, Associates
Edith Sitwell
ES
had many friendships, and there were few notables in the artistic world whom she did not meet. Her friendships were quite volatile, with frequent quarrels, sometimes caused by the practical jokes and the heightened...
NC
was cast as Iris March in Michael Arlen's The Green Hat, as Lucy Tantamount in Aldous Huxley
's Point Counter Point, as Baby Bucktrout in Wyndham Lewis
's The Roaring Queen...
Family and Intimate relationships
Ada Leverson
AL
's three sisters all married socially prominent Jewish husbands.
Speedie, Julie. Wonderful Sphinx: The Biography of Ada Leverson. Virago.
239-40
Family and Intimate relationships
Q. D. Leavis
Though both husband and wife were to influential, F. R. Leavis became one of the leading literary critics of the twentieth century. A dynamic speaker and teacher, he was known for his uncompromising, exclusive, often...
