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by Lyndall Gordon (Author) "THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT was born on 26 September 1888 in St Louis, Missouri, the son of a New England schoolteacher and a St Louis merchant..." (more)
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  • Hardcover: 721 pages
  • Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company (Jun 1999)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0393047288
  • ISBN-13: 978-0393047288
  • Product Dimensions: 24.3 x 16.3 x 4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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3.0 out of 5 stars A good biography, 23 Dec 2001
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This review is from: T.S.Eliot: An Imperfect Life (Paperback)
Lyndall Gordon is very good at supplying the biographical background to some of Eliot's later thought: particularly the Unitarian interpretation of Christianity as merely good works -- which one might say, led Eliot to seek an interpretation of Christianity as merely belief. His later attempts to live with saintly humility and secretive devotion are also well covered.

It must be said that Lyndall Gordon is a terrible reader of poetry: her attempted readings of poems are often no better than loose paraphrases. (For example, the early poem 'The Boston Evening Transcript' has the self-consciously ridiculous simile, "And wearily, as one would turn and nod to La Rouchefoucauld ..." which Lyndall Gordon paraphrases as "he imagines saying goodbye to La Rouchefoucauld" -- which is too re-cast a piece of wit as a day-dream.)

So this is a literary biography that confirms genre expectations in being more interested in the life than the writing. But knowing about Eliot's life does, perhaps, make one see things in the poems that one didn't before -- especially, for me, with 'Ash-Wednesday' -- and this easy-to-read, competent biography is a place to get that knowledge (and also a place to be revenged on the Eliot who tried to say, absurdly, that the poem and the poet's life were completely separate!)

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