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Young Eliot: From St. Louis to The Waste Land by Robert Crawford
bookshelves: winter-20142015, biography, nonfiction, radio-4, published-2015, poetry, lit-crit
Read from January 29 to February 06, 2015
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b050zkrsDescription: A new biography of TS Eliot by Robert Crawford, abridged by Katrin Williams, is published to mark 50 years since the poet's death.
1. Childhood in St Louis, where Tom's life is cosseted and formal at Locust Street, and where the 'hurricane' 1896 will have an influence on the future poet's work.2. Harvard means serious study for Tom, some after-hours jollity, and a love of French decadent poetry. Then he heads for Paris..3. In 1914 Tom leaves Harvard for Merton College Cambridge, to further his studies, refine his poetry, and here he meets his future wife Vivienne.4. Time spent in Bosham. Then in London Tom becomes a bank employee. Then lines for The Waste Land begin to take shape.5. Tom still works in the bank, but his verse is published by Virginia Woolf and he dines with James Joyce in Paris. Then comes The Waste Land...Readers Tom Mannion and David Acton
Producer Duncan Minshull.
Eliot reads his Wasteland
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