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T. S. Eliot
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T. S. Eliot : Criterion, The
'He had recommended T.S. Eliot to the War Office in 1918, and continued to praise his poetry and his periodical, the "Criterion"'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Serial / periodical
T. S. Eliot : unknown
Friday 14 February 1931: 'Janet Case yesterday [...] I suppose over 70 now [...] She clings to youth. "But we never see any young people" & so reads Tom Eliot &c'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Janet Case Print: Book
T. S. Eliot : The Rock. A Pageant Play
'T. S. Eliot's The Rock. A Pageant Play had been performed at Sadler's Wells Theatre 28 May-9 June [1934] in aid of the Forty-Five Churches Fund of the Diocese of London, and was published at the same time. V[irginia] W[oolf] only read it, and expressed her views in a letter to Stephen Spender'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book
T. S. Eliot : valedictory editorial article
Tuesday 17 January 1939: 'Yesterday I went to the London Library [...] read Tom [Eliot]'s swan song in the Criterion [...] home & read Delacroix journals; about whiich I could write: I mean the idea is that its among the painters not the writers one finds stability, consolation. This refers to a sentence of his about the profundity of the painter's meaning; & how a writer always superficialises.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Serial / periodical
T. S. Eliot : The Family Reunion
Thursday 16 March 1939: 'Yesterday in Bond Street where I finally did lay out £10 on clothes, I saw a crowd round a car, & on the back seat was a Cheetah with a chain round his loins. I also found a presentation copy of Tom's Family Reunion; & sucked no pleasure from the first pages.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book
T. S. Eliot : The Family Reunion
Wednesday 22 March 1939: 'Tom sent me his play, Family Reunion. No, it don't do. I read it over the week end. It starts theories. But no... You see the experiment with stylised chatter isnt successful. he's a lyric not a dramatic. But here theres no free lyricism. is caught back by the character [...] A clever beginning, & some ideas; but they spin out: & nothing grips: all mist -- a failure: a proof hes not a dramatist. A monologist.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book
T. S. Eliot : unknown
'I have pleasure in stating that Mr. T.S. Eliot (whom I understand to be a candidate for a commission in the Quartermasters or Interpreters Corps) has an intimate knowledge of the French language. Also that he is a writer of distinguished merit, for whose work personally I have a great admiration.'
UnknownCentury: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett
T. S. Eliot : Ash Wednesday
Leonard Woolf to T. S. Eliot, 5 May 1930: 'You are the only living poet I can read twice; only in your case I cannot stop at twice & go on rereading until something from outside intervenes to stop me. The usual thing happened to me the other evening with Ash Wednesday. It is amazingly beautiful. I dislike the doctrine, as you probably know, but the poetry remains & shows how unimportant belief or unbelief may be.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Leonard Woolf Print: Book
T. S. Eliot : 'Tradition and the Individual Talent'
' "Impressions and experiences which are important for the man may take no place in the poetry, and those which become important in the poetry may play quite a negligible part in the man, the personality." This [T. S. Eliot, Sacred Wood, p52] seems sound, but "emotions which he has never experienced will serve his turn as well as those familiar to him" is surely nonsense. He recovers in "Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But of course only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from those things."'
