The Imperfect Life of T. S. Eliot by Lyndall Gordon

The Imperfect Life of T. S. Eliot by Lyndall Gordon

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The Imperfect Life of T. S. Eliot by Lyndall Gordon

The most authoritative life of Eliot ever written, acclaimed biographer Lyndall Gordon brings into focus a flawed yet brilliant man.
The most valuable single book yet published about Eliot -- Jonathan Raban * Sunday Times *
A nuanced, discerning account of a life famously flawed in its search for perfection * New Yorker *
An intellectually demanding, sophisticated and distinguished book. . Probing and extremely thoughtful -- Richard Bernstein * New York Times *

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: tseliot.com.

Lyndall Gordon is a fellow of St Hilda's College, Oxford and a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She lives in Oxford.

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ISBN 13 9781844088935
ISBN 10 1844088936
Title The Imperfect Life of T. S. Eliot
Author Lyndall Gordon
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
Year published 2012-11-01
Number of pages 672
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