The hyacinth girl : T. S. Eliot's hidden muse /

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, T.S. Eliot was considered the greatest English-language poet of his generation. His poems The Waste Land and Four Quartets are classics of the modernist canon, while his essays influenced a school of literary criticism. Raised in St. Louis, shaped by his yout...

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Main Author: Gordon, Lyndall (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2023].
Edition:First American edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Home women
  • Scenes in Paris
  • A chance of love
  • "The poet's bride"
  • Under English eyes
  • Confiding lines
  • A private wasteland
  • A sighting in Eccleston Square
  • Fights to the death
  • "Rose of memory"
  • Actor and muse
  • A question of divorces
  • A possuma for Tom Possum
  • "We"
  • Intimacy
  • The way down
  • "Broken stones"
  • Vivienne's committal
  • Miss Hale in her prime
  • The play's the thing
  • Enter a guardian
  • The posterity plan
  • The disciple's story
  • Curating the past
  • Epilogue.