Young Eliot by Robert Crawford
Eliot wanted no biography written, but this book reveals him in all his vulnerable complexity as student and lover, stink-bomber, banker and philosopher, but most of all as an epoch-shaping poet struggling to make art among personal disasters.
Young Eliot marks both a milestone and a turning point.. [It] is judicious, sympathetic, meticulous.... The story it tells of a great poet’s early life is enthralling. -- Robert McCrum * Observer *
This is an exemplary book… I look forward to the second volume eagerly. -- Stuart Kelly * Scotsman *
A masterful biography of the canonical modernist... Drawing on sources not available to previous biographers, the author fashions an authoritative, nuanced portrait... Although Crawford modestly claims that his biography is neither “official” nor definitive, it is unlikely to be surpassed. * Kirkus *
Crawford’s superb biography, of which this is the first of two volumes, must now be regarded as the standard work. It does not diminish or tarnish Eliot’s reputation. On the contrary, it makes one want to return to the poems and read them again and again. -- Alan Taylor * Herald *
Crawford’s case is sensitive and compelling, and his account – especially of Eliot’s childhood and student years – is more richly detailed than any previous biographer’s…. A powerful and enlightening book. -- John Carey * Sunday Times *
This is an exemplary book… I look forward to the second volume eagerly. -- Stuart Kelly * Scotsman *
A masterful biography of the canonical modernist... Drawing on sources not available to previous biographers, the author fashions an authoritative, nuanced portrait... Although Crawford modestly claims that his biography is neither “official” nor definitive, it is unlikely to be surpassed. * Kirkus *
Crawford’s superb biography, of which this is the first of two volumes, must now be regarded as the standard work. It does not diminish or tarnish Eliot’s reputation. On the contrary, it makes one want to return to the poems and read them again and again. -- Alan Taylor * Herald *
Crawford’s case is sensitive and compelling, and his account – especially of Eliot’s childhood and student years – is more richly detailed than any previous biographer’s…. A powerful and enlightening book. -- John Carey * Sunday Times *
Poet and biographer Robert Crawford’s books from Cape include Young Eliot (2015), and Testament (2014). He is Bishop Wardlaw Professor of Poetry at the University of St Andrews.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780224093880 |
| ISBN 10 | 0224093886 |
| Title | Young Eliot |
| Author | Robert Crawford |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2015-01-29 |
| Number of pages | 512 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for Saltire Society Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2015 (UK) |
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