T.S. Eliot

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Hamish Hamilton, 1984 - Biography & Autobiography - 400 pages

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7
Prelude
13
The Pursuit of Learning 19061914
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Copyright

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T.S. Eliot: A Life
Peter Ackroyd
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Peter Ackroyd
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About the author (1984)

Peter Ackroyd was born in London in 1949. He graduated from Cambridge University and was a Fellow at Yale (1971-1973). A critically acclaimed and versatile writer, Ackroyd began his career while at Yale, publishing two volumes of poetry. He continued writing poetry until he began delving into historical fiction with The Great Fire of London (1982). A constant theme in Ackroyd's work is the blending of past, present, and future, often paralleling the two in his biographies and novels. Much of Ackroyd's work explores the lives of celebrated authors such as Dickens, Milton, Eliot, Blake, and More. Ackroyd's approach is unusual, injecting imagined material into traditional biographies. In The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde (1983), his work takes on an autobiographical form in his account of Wilde's final years. He was widely praised for his believable imitation of Wilde's style. He was awarded the British Whitbread Award for biography in 1984 of T.S. Eliot, and the Whitbread Award for fiction in 1985 for his novel Hawksmoor. Ackroyd currently lives in London and publishes one or two books a year. He still considers poetry to be his first love, seeing his novels as an extension of earlier poetic work.

Bibliographic information

TitleT.S. Eliot
Sección de obras de lengua y estudios literarios
AuthorPeter Ackroyd
Editionillustrated, reprint
PublisherHamish Hamilton, 1984
Original fromthe University of Michigan
DigitizedMar 7, 2008
ISBN0241113490, 9780241113493
Length400 pages
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Biography & Autobiography / General
Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
  
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