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Among the greatest of poets, T. S. Eliot protected his privacy while publicly associated with three women: two wives, Vivienne and Valerie, and a church-going companion, Mary Trevelyan. This presentation concealed a life-long love for an American: Emily Hale, a drama teacher who was the source of 'memory and desire' in The Waste Land; she is the Hyacinth Girl.
Drawing on the only recently unsealed 1,131 letters Eliot wrote to Hale and suppressed in his lifetime, leading biographer Lyndall Gordon reveals both the hidden poet and the muse who was the first and consistently important woman of life and his art. Emily Hale was at the centre of a love drama he conceived and the inspiration for the lines he wrote to last beyond their time.
'Thanks to her meticulous research and inspired storytelling we will never read Eliot's poems the same way again' Heather Clark, author of Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath
'Exquisitely nuanced' Kathryn Hughes, Sunday Times
'Gordon is a writer of high intelligence and deep sensibility, with an earnest interest in truth and justice... coupled with a moral seriousness that is never solemn' Richard Davenport-Hines, Literary Review
'Revelatory' Erica Wagner
Among the greatest of poets, T. S. Eliot protected his privacy while publicly associated with three women: two wives, Vivienne and Valerie, and a church-going companion, Mary Trevelyan. This presentation concealed a life-long love for an American: Emily Hale, a drama teacher who was the source of 'memory and desire' in The Waste Land; she is the Hyacinth Girl.
Drawing on the only recently unsealed 1,131 letters Eliot wrote to Hale and suppressed in his lifetime, leading biographer Lyndall Gordon reveals both the hidden poet and the muse who was the first and consistently important woman of life and his art. Emily Hale was at the centre of a love drama he conceived and the inspiration for the lines he wrote to last beyond their time.
'Thanks to her meticulous research and inspired storytelling we will never read Eliot's poems the same way again' Heather Clark, author of Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath
'Exquisitely nuanced' Kathryn Hughes, Sunday Times
'Gordon is a writer of high intelligence and deep sensibility, with an earnest interest in truth and justice... coupled with a moral seriousness that is never solemn' Richard Davenport-Hines, Literary Review
'Revelatory' Erica Wagner
Lyndall Gordon was born in Cape Town and studied American Literature at Columbia University in New York. She came to England through the Rhodes Trust in 1973.
She is the prize-winning author of biographies including The Imperfect Life of T. S. Eliot; Henry James: His Women and his Art; Charlotte Bronte: A Passionate Life; Virginia Woolf: A Writer's Life; Vindication: A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft; Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family Feuds and Outsiders: Five Women Writers Who Changed the World. There are also two memoirs, Shared Lives, A Story of Women's Friendship, and Divided Lives, about her mother, whose spiritual journey opened up Eliot's poetry for her. She has written the 'Life' for the Eliot website: [...].
Lyndall Gordon is a fellow of St Hilda's College, Oxford and a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She lives in Oxford.
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2023 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Biographien |
| Rubrik: | Belletristik |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Inhalt: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| ISBN-13: | 9780349012094 |
| ISBN-10: | 0349012091 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Herstellernummer: | 687773 |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Gordon, Lyndall |
| Hersteller: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Maße: | 196 x 127 x 36 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Lyndall Gordon |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 10.08.2023 |
| Gewicht: | 0,426 kg |
Lyndall Gordon was born in Cape Town and studied American Literature at Columbia University in New York. She came to England through the Rhodes Trust in 1973.
She is the prize-winning author of biographies including The Imperfect Life of T. S. Eliot; Henry James: His Women and his Art; Charlotte Bronte: A Passionate Life; Virginia Woolf: A Writer's Life; Vindication: A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft; Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family Feuds and Outsiders: Five Women Writers Who Changed the World. There are also two memoirs, Shared Lives, A Story of Women's Friendship, and Divided Lives, about her mother, whose spiritual journey opened up Eliot's poetry for her. She has written the 'Life' for the Eliot website: [...].
Lyndall Gordon is a fellow of St Hilda's College, Oxford and a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She lives in Oxford.
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2023 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Biographien |
| Rubrik: | Belletristik |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Inhalt: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| ISBN-13: | 9780349012094 |
| ISBN-10: | 0349012091 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Herstellernummer: | 687773 |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Gordon, Lyndall |
| Hersteller: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Maße: | 196 x 127 x 36 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Lyndall Gordon |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 10.08.2023 |
| Gewicht: | 0,426 kg |
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