Valerie Eliot, née Esmé Valerie Fletcher, is the widow and literary executor of the Nobel Prize–winning poet T. S. Eliot. She became Eliot's second wife in 1957, and their marriage continued until his death in 1965. In addition to editing the first two volumes of the poet's letters, she has edited T. S. Eliot: The Waste Land, a Facsimile & Transcript of the Original Drafts. She lives in London. Hugh Haughton is professor of English at the University of York, and author of The Poetry of Derek Mahon.
“[A] vast treasure house . . . Eliot's letters are like what he
once called poetry itself: the highest form of
entertainment.”—Anthony Brandt
*Anthony Brandt*
“[Eliot’s] success is an improbable and amazing story, and the
publication, in two volumes, of his correspondence from 1898 to
1925 . . . lets us watch that story as it was unfolding, day by
day, from the inside.”—Louis Menand, New Yorker
*New Yorker*
“Weirdly gripping . . . one never knows when one might be stopped
dead by a letter of singular importance.”—James Longenbach, The
Nation
*The Nation*
“Better than any biography could, these letters capture the
unremitting nature of Eliot's anxieties, without which he would not
have written his greatest poems.”—Abigail Deutsch, Wall Street
Journal
*Wall Street Journal*
“[A] retrospective tome of introspective delight . . . Intimate
revelations . . . A candid portrait of an artist as a young
man.”—Publishers Weekly
*Publishers Weekly*
“These letters do reveal the anxieties boiled down into The Waste
Land. They also show us the graces this browbeaten life
possessed.”—William Logan, New York Times Book Review
*New York Times Book Review*
“[Of] inestimable value . . . long-awaited [and] definitive.”—Jeff
Simon, Buffalo News
*Buffalo News*
“In these adroitly annotated volumes, the poet’s conquest of
literary London is brought brilliantly to life.”—Edward Short,
Weekly Standard
*Weekly Standard*
"[A] trove of important correspondence . . . Taken together these
volumes reveal the personal, economic, and social exigencies that
impacted Eliot and his work and provide new, detailed literary
history of Eliot and his age."—L.L. Johnson, Choice
*Choice*
“These two absorbing volumes . . . will fascinate every lover of
literature, not just poetry.”—Benjamin Ivry, San Francisco
Chronicle
*San Francisco Chronicle*
“These chunky tomes of his correspondence allow us to follow day by
day, drop by harrowing drop, Eliot’s `rudely forced’ metamorphosis
into the poet of hysteria whose sufferings enabled him, like
Dostoevsky, to find `the entrance to a genuine and personal
universe.’”—Mark Ford, New York Review of Books
*New York Review of Books*
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