{"product_id":"young-eliotisbn-9780374536053","title":"Young Eliot","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA groundbreaking new biography of one of the twentieth century's most important poets\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eOn the fiftieth anniversary of the death of T. S. Eliot, the award-winning biographer Robert Crawford presents us with the first volume of a comprehensive account of this poetic genius. \u003ci\u003eYoung Eliot\u003c\/i\u003e traces the life of the twentieth century's most important poet from his childhood in St. Louis to the publication of his revolutionary poem \u003ci\u003eThe Waste Land\u003c\/i\u003e. Crawford provides readers with a new understanding of some of the most widely read poems in the English language through his depiction of Eliot's childhood--laced with tragedy and shaped by an idealistic, bookish family in which knowledge of saints and martyrs was taken for granted--as well as through his exploration of Eliot's marriage to Vivien Haigh-Wood, a woman who believed that she loved Eliot \"in a way that destroys us both.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eQuoting extensively from Eliot's poetry and prose as well as drawing on new interviews, archives, and previously undisclosed memoirs, Crawford shows how the poet's background in Missouri, Massachusetts, and Paris made him a lightning rod for modernity. Most impressively, \u003ci\u003eYoung Eliot \u003c\/i\u003ereveals the way Eliot accessed his inner life--his anguishes and his fears--and blended them with his omnivorous reading to create his masterpieces \"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock\" and \u003ci\u003eThe Waste Land\u003c\/i\u003e. At last, we experience T. S. Eliot in all his tender complexity, as student and lover, penitent and provocateur, banker and philosopher--but most of all, \u003ci\u003eYoung Eliot\u003c\/i\u003e shows us an epoch-shaping poet struggling to make art among personal disasters.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ingram Content Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46382808924389,"sku":null,"price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/young-eliotisbn-9780374536053","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}