Why didn’t he commit suicide?
Frank Kermode: Reviewing T.S. Eliot, 4 November 2004
T.S. Eliot: The Contemporary Reviews
by Jewel Spears Brooker.
Cambridge, 644 pp., £80, May 2004,0 521 38277 7 Show More
by Jewel Spears Brooker.
Cambridge, 644 pp., £80, May 2004,
“... continues. Eliot’s stock seems at present rather low. The second curve, the curve of adulation, rose steeply until the 1930s, when it flattened out, to be restored to rotundity in the poet’s later years. Perhaps it has now levelled off. The appearance of Valerie Eliot’s edition of The Waste Land in 1971 provided a new context for argument. It was well ... ”