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The Letters of T.S. Eliot, vol. 1, 1898-1922.

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From: The Nation
Date: 19881205
Author:Gioia, Dana

S THE LETTERS OF T.S. ELIOT, Volume 1, 1898-1922. Edited by Valerie Eliot. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. 639 pp. $29.95.

In June 1915, Thomas Stearns Eliot, a 26-year- old American graduate student on a traveling fellowship to Oxford, committed the one rash act of his life. He married Vivien HaighWood, a vivacious young Englishwoman he had met only a few months before. Handsome, self-conscious and exaggeratedly decorous, Eliot entered marriage with little romantic and no sexual experience in his sheltered past. Since early childhood his life had been spent in one or ...

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