Young Eliot From St Louis To The Waste Land Crawford Robert by Crawford, Robert, 1959- Author instant download after payment.

xvi, 493 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : 24 cm, \"Published simultaneously in Britain and America to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the death of T.S. Eliot, this major biography traces the life of the twentieth century's most important poet from his childhood in the ragtime city of St Louis right up to the publication of his most famous poem, The Waste Land ... this book reveals him in all his vulnerable complexity as student and lover, stink-bomber, banker and philosopher, but most of all as an epoch-shaping poet struggling to make art among personal disasters\"--Publisher's website, Includes bibliographical references and index, Tom -- Hey kid, let's dance -- Schoolings -- Full-fledged Harvard man -- Rose -- Secret knowledge -- Voyages -- Philosopher and actor falls in love -- Oxford year -- V.S. Elio -- Observations -- American -- Old man -- Professional -- To Lausanne -- Waste land