Eliot - The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 4

THE LETTERS OF
T. S. ELIOT
VOLUME 4

By T. S. Eliot

THE COMPLETE POEMS AND PLAYS

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COLLECTED POEMS 19091962
FOUR QUARTETS
THE WASTE LAND AND OTHER POEMS
THE WASTE LAND :
A Facsimile and Transcript of the Original Drafts
edited by Valerie Eliot
INVENTIONS OF THE MARCH HARE :
POEMS 19091917
edited by Christopher Ricks
SELECTED POEMS

plays
MURDER IN THE CATHEDRAL
THE FAMILY REUNION
THE COCKTAIL PARTY
THE CONFIDENTIAL CLERK
THE ELDER STATESMAN

literary criticism
THE SACRED WOOD
SELECTED ESSAYS
THE USE OF POETRY AND THE USE OF CRITICISM
VARIETIES OF METAPHYSICAL POETRY
edited by Ronald Schuchard
TO CRITICIZE THE CRITIC
ON POETRY AND POETS
FOR LANCELOT ANDREWES
SELECTED PROSE OF T. S. ELIOT
edited by Frank Kermode

social criticism
THE IDEA OF A CHRISTIAN SOCIETY
edited by David Edwards
NOTES TOWARDS THE DEFINITION OF CULTURE

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THE LETTERS OF T. S. ELIOT
Volume 1: 18981922
Revised Edition
edited by Valerie Eliot and Hugh Haughton
THE LETTERS OF T. S. ELIOT
Volume 2: 19231925
edited by Valerie Eliot and Hugh Haughton
THE LETTERS OF T. S. ELIOT
Volume 3: 19261927
edited by Valerie Eliot and John Haffenden
THE LETTERS OF T. S. ELIOT
Volume 4: 19281929
edited by Valerie Eliot and John Haffenden

EDITED BY

VALERIE ELIOT

AND

JOHN HAFFENDEN

VOLUME 4
19281929

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1 Portrait of T. S. Eliot. Drawing by William Rothenstein, 1928.
Plate V from Twelve Portraits, London: Faber & Faber Ltd, 1929. Estate of William Rothenstein. Collection Faber Archive

2 Vivien Eliot in the garden of 57 Chester Terrace, with Peter the dog, June 1928. By permission of the Houghton Library, Harvard University, MS Am. 2560 (185)

3 Eliot with Charlie Chaplin moustache, taken by E. McKnight Kauffer, 1928. Copyright Simon Rendall. Collection Valerie Eliot

4 T. S. Eliot, with pet dog Peter, at 57 Chester Terrace, May 1928. Collection Valerie Eliot

5 T. S. Eliots mother, Charlotte, in Cambridge, 1928. Photograph by Henry Ware Eliot. Collection Valerie Eliot

6 Eliot in the garden of 57 Chester Terrace, May 1928. Collection Valerie Eliot

7 Leonard and Virginia Woolf on holiday in Cassis, French Riviera, 1928. The Granger Collection, New York/Topfoto

8 T. S. Eliot reading, photographed by Maurice Beck and Helen McGregor, c.1928. Collection Valerie Eliot

9 I. A. (Ivor Armstrong) and Dorothy Richards on their honeymoon in Nara, Japan, 1927. Lorna Caputo. Private Collection

10 A. L. (Alfred Leslie) Rowse. Photograph by Dorothy Lesty, late 1920s. Courtesy of Special Collections, University of Exeter

11 Edward McKnight Kauffer. Vintage bromide print by Howard Coster, 1927. National Portrait Gallery, London

12 Thomas MacGreevy, looking from his rooms at the cole Normale Suprieure, c.1928. Margaret Farrington and Robert Ryan, estate of Thomas MacGreevy

13 Frontispiece drawing by E. McKnight Kauffer for A Song for Simeon, London, Faber & Gwyer, 1928. Simon Rendall. Collection Faber Archive

14 Alexis St Leger Leger (St-John Perse), c.1930. Photograph by Albert Harlingue. Roger-Viollet/Rex Features

15 Edouard Roditi. Photograph by Hans Hasselt, Berlin, 1931. Edouard Roditi Papers (Collection 644). Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA

16 Mario Praz, 1934. Ojetti archive, file of Mario Praz, Fondi Storici Galleria Nazionale darte Moderna. Courtesy Ministero per i Beni e le Attivita Culturali, Rome

17 For Lancelot Andrewes: Essays on Style and Order, London, Faber & Gwyer, 1928. Jacket design by Edward Bawden. Courtesy of Bertram Rota, Ltd, London

18 Marguerite Chapin Caetani, c.1930. Fondazione Camillo Caetani, Fondo Fotografico Marguerite Caetani, Rome

19 Front cover of Animula, London, Faber & Faber, 1929. Wood-engraving by Gertrude Hermes. Collection Faber Archive

20 Frontispiece wood-engraving by Gertrude Hermes for Animula. Copyright Estate of Gertrude Hermes. Collection Faber Archive

21 Front cover of Dante, London, Faber & Faber, 1929. Jacket design by Rex Whistler. Collection Faber Archive

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