The Hyacinth Girl: T.S. Eliot's Hidden Muse

by Lyndall Gordon

Book Overview

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, T.S. Eliot was considered the greatest English-language poet of his generation. His poems The Waste Land and Four Quartets are classics of the modernist canon, while his essays influenced a school of literary criticism. Raised in St. Louis, shaped by his youth in Boston, he reinvented himself as an Englishman after converting to the Anglican Church. Like the authoritative yet restrained voice in his prose,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1324002808
• ISBN13: 9781324002802
• Release Date: November 2022
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.4" x 9.4"