{"product_id":"9780571140855-the-letters-of-t-s-eliot-volume-3-1926-1927","title":"The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 3: 1926-1927","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThese are also the years in which Eliot published  two sections of an exhilaratingly funny, savage, jazz-influenced  play-in-verse - 'Fragment of a Prologue' and 'Fragment of an Agon' -  which were subsequently brought together as \u003ci\u003eSweeney Agonistes\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn  the period covered by this richly detailed collection, which brings the  poet to the age of forty, T.S. Eliot was to set a new course for his  life and work. Forsaking the Unitarianism of his American forebears, he  was received into the Church of England and naturalised as a British  citizen - a radical and public alteration of the intellectual and  spiritual direction of his career.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe demands of Eliot's  professional life as writer and editor became more complex and exacting  during these years. The celebrated but financially-pressed periodical he  had been editing since 1922 - \u003ci\u003eThe Criterion\u003c\/i\u003e - switched between  being a quarterly and a monthly, before being rescued by the fledgling  house of Faber \u0026amp; Gwyer. In addition to writing numerous essays and  editorials, lectures, reviews, introductions and prefaces, his letters  show Eliot involving himself wholeheartedly in the business of his new  career as a publisher. His Ariel poems, \u003ci\u003eJourney of the Magi\u003c\/i\u003e (1927) and \u003ci\u003eA Song for Simeon \u003c\/i\u003e(1928) established a new manner and vision for the poet of \u003ci\u003eThe Waste Land\u003c\/i\u003e  and 'The Hollow Men'. These are also the years in which Eliot published  two sections of an exhilaratingly funny, savage, jazz-influenced  play-in-verse - 'Fragment of a Prologue' and 'Fragment of an Agon' -  which were subsequently brought together as \u003ci\u003eSweeney Agonistes\u003c\/i\u003e. In addition, he struggled to translate the remarkable work \u003ci\u003eAnabase\u003c\/i\u003e, by St.-John Perse, which was to be a signal influence upon his own later poetry.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis  correspondence with friends and mentors vividly documents all the  stages of Eliot's personal and artistic transformation during these  crucial years, the continuing anxieties of his private life, and the  forging of his public reputation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57536568426870,"sku":"9780571140855","price":39.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_40030312.jpg?v=1774289232","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780571140855-the-letters-of-t-s-eliot-volume-3-1926-1927","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}