The Braver Thing
Christopher Ricks, 1 November 1984
T.S. Eliot
by Peter Ackroyd.
Hamish Hamilton, 400 pp., £12.50, September 1984,0 241 11349 0 Show More
by Peter Ackroyd.
Hamish Hamilton, 400 pp., £12.50, September 1984,
Recollections Mainly of Artists and Writers
by Geoffrey Grigson.
Chatto, 195 pp., £12.50, September 1984,0 7011 2791 0 Show More
by Geoffrey Grigson.
Chatto, 195 pp., £12.50, September 1984,
“... gayer than his reputation, actually singing “Frankie and Johnny”.’ Frankie and Johnny, or Tom and Viv? He was her man, but he done her wrong? The marketers of Ackroyd’s book have done both him and Eliot wrong in sensationalising it. The new Vanity Fair, which unlike the old one is not a magazine for which a T.S. Eliot would write, announced its ... ”