Things Ill-Done and Undone
Helen Thaventhiran: T.S. Eliot’s Alibis, 8 September 2022
Eliot after ‘The Waste Land’
by Robert Crawford.
Cape, 609 pp., £25, June,978 0 224 09389 7 Show More
by Robert Crawford.
Cape, 609 pp., £25, June,
“... of intelligence homewards; his diagnosis of ‘disintegration of the intellect’ in poetry after Dante becomes a symptom of Eliot’s fear that Vivien had ‘nearly lost her reason for a time’. So visceral and personal is Eliot’s mind, in Crawford’s account, that as ‘he likens Donne’s metaphysical “bringing to light” of “curious aspects and ... ”