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The Lost Songs of T.S. Eliot

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 19970323
Author:Michael Dirda

INVENTIONS OF THE MARCH HARE

Poems 1909-1917

By T.S. Eliot Edited by Christopher Ricks Harcourt Brace. 428 pp. $30 THIS IS a superb work of scholarship by Christopher Ricks, and a handsome example of bookmaking from Harcourt Brace. Transcribed from a notebook that T.S. Eliot sold in 1922 to his American benefactor John Quinn, these 40 or so youthful poems have hitherto been known only to scholars -- Lyndall Gordon, for instance, discusses them in Eliot's Early Years and John T. Mayer devotes an entire book to their importance, T.S. Eliot's Silent Voices. Yet only now have they been made ...

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