The American T. S. Eliot: A Study of the Early Writings

by Eric Sigg

Book Overview

In his old age T.S. Eliot said on a number of occasions that the American experience of his childhood and youth had had the deepest influence on his poetry. This is the first book to explore in detail how Eliot's writings at once preserved and reacted against his complex American heritage: his intellectually and socially prominent family, their strong Unitarian culture, and their experience in nineteenth-century St. Louis and Boston. Analyzing major...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521365619
• ISBN13: 9780521365611
• Release Date: September 1989
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"