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T.S. Eliot: a life.

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From: National Review
Date: 19841228
Author:Meyers, Jeffrey

ELIOT--like Kafka, Orwell, and Auden--specified that he did not want to have a biography written about him. But he paradoxically stated, in "The Frontiers of Criticism" (1956): "There is no reason why biographies of poets should not be written. . . . Any critic seriously concerned with a man's work should be expected to know something about the man's life." Several inadequate biographical studies have been published, and an edition of Eliot's letters have been promised for many years (I have heard, on good authority, that this project has long since been completed and is being ...

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