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.
Eleanor Beach
fully supported her daughter's dream of owning a bookstore. She worked with her broker to get SB
the necessary $3,000 (24,810 francs) in August 1919 in order to start the business.
Fitch, Noel Riley. Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties. W. W. Norton.
In June 1925, SB
and Adrienne Monnier
translated into French T. S. Eliot
's poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock for the first edition of Monnier's Le Navire d'argent.
Fitch, Noel Riley. Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties. W. W. Norton.
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This was...
Intertextuality and Influence
Sylvia Beach
Eliot
later affirmed that he owed them thanks for the introduction of [his] verse to French readers.
Fitch, Noel Riley. Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties. W. W. Norton.
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Textual Production
Sylvia Beach
Though the essays were solicited and overseen by Joyce
, SB
did much of the editorial work and designed the cover.
Beach, Sylvia. Shakespeare and Company. Harcourt, Brace.
In her junior year at college EB
interviewed T. S. Eliot
, who was in town to deliver the Norton Lectures. A year later she met Marianne Moore
.
Marshall, Megan. Elizabeth Bishop. A Miracle for Breakfast. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
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Publishing
Caroline Blackwood
CB
changed publishers to Heinemann
for a volume of short stories and essays titled with the words of Shakespeare
's Ophelia, which had been given a new slant by Eliot
in The Waste Land:...
Friends, Associates
Elizabeth Bowen
EB
loved Oxford (where she and her husband spent ten years) and became a social success there. She met and became friends with John
and Susan Buchan
, and it was through them that she...
Textual Features
Christine Brooke-Rose
A study of the ways in which metaphor functions grammatically, this text analyses a range of works by writers including Chaucer
, Donne
, Yeats
, and Eliot
: all but Chaucer were added since...
Collecott, Diana. H.D. and Sapphic Modernism, 1910-1950. Cambridge University Press, http://Rutherford HSS.
235 and n45
Textual Production
Bryher
Desmond MacCarthy
had launched Life and Letters in June 1928; it issued its last number this month, and Bryher's new publication first appeared in September. It merged it with the London Mercury after May 1939...
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Family and Intimate relationships
Mary Butts
Her accounts of her marriage were disingenuous in several respects. She described it as one of those War-marriages between very young people,
Blondel, Nathalie. Mary Butts: Scenes from the Life. McPherson & Company.
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which was hardly accurate when she was at the time twenty-seven. Rodker...
Textual Production
Mary Butts
Her efforts to find a publisher for this novel did not meet with success until September 1927.
Wormald, Mark. “Not to be forgotten”. Times Literary Supplement, pp. 10-12.
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In a journal entry that year she lamented how the novel might well have been called The...
Publishing
Mary Butts
This book, originally titled Alexander the Great, was completed in 1931, but MB
had some difficulty getting it published. She sent her manuscript to T. S. Eliot
at Faber and Faber
, but he...
Textual Features
Mary Butts
In this essay Butts has some praise for Old Bloomsbury, particularly Lytton Strachey
,
Butts, Mary. “Bloomsbury”. Modernism/Modernity, edited by Camilla Bagg et al., Vol.
5
, No. 2, pp. 32-45.
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but criticises it for relativism, artificiality, and lack of engagement with the real world. She credits Wyndham Lewis
for...
Timeline
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Texts
Eliot, T. S. The Elder Statesman. Faber and Faber, 1959.
Eliot, T. S. The Family Reunion. Faber and Faber, 1939.
Eliot, T. S. The Idea of a Christian Society. Faber and Faber.
Eliot, T. S. The Letters of T.S. Eliot. Editor Eliot, Valerie, Faber and Faber, 1988.
Eliot, T. S. The Little Book of Modern Verse. Editor Ridler, Anne, Faber and Faber, 1941.
Eliot, T. S. The Metaphysical Poets. The Times Literary Supplement.
Eliot, T. S. The Sacred Wood. Methuen.
Eliot, T. S. The Sacred Wood. Methuen; Barnes and Noble, 1960.
Eliot, T. S. The Waste Land. Boni and Liveright.
Eliot, T. S. The Waste Land. Hogarth Press.
Eliot, T. S. The Waste Land Drafts. Editor Eliot, Valerie, Faber and Faber, 1971.
Eliot, T. S. “Tradition and the Individual Talent, I”. The Egoist, Vol.
