T. S. Eliot (1888–1965) was one of the fathers of modernism and a defining voice in English-language poetry. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948. Valerie Eliot (1926–2012) was the executor of T. S. Eliot’s literary estate and edited his published letters.
"First published in 1971, edited by Eliot’s widow, they
revolutionized the understanding of the poem’s creation, by making
apparent Ezra Pound’s outsized editorial role, including many
ruthless cuts, and also the input of Eliot’s troubled first wife,
Vivienne. These pages—some handwritten, some typewritten, with
wordless loops and slashes scrawled across the text and brusque
observations at the side—have become famous in their own right....
Few Eliot fans will be able to resist."
*New Yorker, "Best Books of 2022"*
"The Albemarle receipts were not included by Valerie Eliot in her
1971 edition of the drafts of The Waste Land but have been added to
this centenary edition, which seems aimed at the Eliot aficionado
ready to pore over every scrap surviving in the archive and eager
to discover new angles on a poem more exhaustively interpreted than
any in the language—or rather languages, for it is the most
polyglot of poems. This gala volume is the first to reproduce
manuscripts and type-scripts in color and boasts of various
‘additional materials,’ namely those bills and the versos of three
leaves: on one of these Eliot has jotted down a couple of cosmetic
skin creams that he has been instructed to purchase for his first
wife, Vivien, at a pharmacy on the Champs-Élysées, and on another a
compressed account of the plot of The Duchess of Malfi. On the
third, the verso of the ending of ‘A Game of Chess,’ Vivien has
written, 'Make any of these alterations—or none if you prefer. Send
me back this copy & let me have it."
*Mark Ford - New York Review of Books*
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