Inventions of the March Hare: Poems 1909 - 1917 by T. S. Eliot: Edited by Christopher Ricks

Inventions of the March Hare: Poems 1909 - 1917 by T. S. Eliot: Edited by Christopher Ricks

by T.S.Eliot (Author), ProfessorChristopherRicks (Editor)

Synopsis

In 1922 T.S. Eliot sold his benefactor, John Quinn, a notebook containing about 50 poems, including several sequences written during Eliot's twenties. These poems, many of them previously unpublished, are presented in this book. They are of various kinds and cover a wide range of subjects.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 480
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: 09 Sep 1996

ISBN 10: 0571178952
ISBN 13: 9780571178957
Book Overview: Author won Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948

Author Bio
Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in St Louis, Missouri in 1888. He was educated at Harvard, at the Sorbonne in Paris, and at Merton College, Oxford. His early poetry was profoundly influenced by the French symbolists, especially Baudelaire and Laforgue. In his academic studies he specialised in philosophy and logic. His doctoral thesis was on F. H. Bradley. He settled in England in 1915, the year in which he married Vivienne Haigh-Wood and also met his contemporary Ezra Pound for the first time. After teaching for a year or so he joined Lloyds Bank in the City of London in 1917, the year in which he published his first volume, Prufrock and Other Observations. In 1919 Poems was hand-printed by Leonard and Virginia Woolf. His first collection of essays, The Sacred Wood, appeared in 1920. His most famous work, The Waste Land, was published in 1922, the same year as James Joyce's Ulysses. The poem was included in the first issue of his jou