'TS Eliot was never young': so begins Robert Crawford's superb biography of the young poet. Quoting extensively from poetry and prose, interviews and previously undisclosed memoirs, Crawford presents a full and detailed portrait of 'Tom' in his youth and early career, from his childhood in St Louis, Missouri, where he was born in 1888, to the publication of The Waste Land in New York and London in 1922.

Young Eliot: From St Louis to The Waste Land

Biographies & Memoirs

Crawford, Robert

Arts & Literature

Vintage

From Treasure Island to Trainspotting, Scotlands rich literary tradition has influenced writing across centuries and cultures far beyond its borders. Here, for the first time, is a single volume presenting the glories of fifteen centuries of Scottish literature. In Scotlands Books poet Robert Crawford tells the story of Scottish writing and its relationship to the countrys history. Stretching from the medieval masterpiece of St Columbas Iona - the earliest surviving Scottish work - to the imaginative, thriving world of twenty-first-century writing with authors such as Ali Smith and James Kelman, this outstanding collection traces the development of literature in Scotland and explores the cultural, linguistic and literary heritage of the nation. It includes extracts from the writing discussed to give a flavour of the original work, full quotations in their own language, previously unpublished works by authors and plenty of new research. Informative and readable, this is the definitive guide to the marvellous legacy of Scottish literature.

Scotlands Books: The Penguin History Of Scottish Literature

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Penguin Uk

The first anthology ever to present the entire history of Scottish poetry ‹ from the 6th century to the end of the 20th.

New Penguin Book Of Scottish Verse

Imlah, Mick.

Scotland's Books: A History of Scottish Literature

From Treasure Island to Trainspotting, Scotland's rich literary tradition has influenced writing across centuries and cultures far beyond its borders. Here, for the first time, is a single volume presenting the glories of fifteen centuries of Scottish literature. In Scotland's Books the much loved poet Robert Crawford tells the story of Scottish imaginative writing and its relationship to the country's history. Stretching from the medieval masterpieces of St. Columba's Iona - the earliest surviving Scottish work - to the energetic world of twenty-first-century writing by authors such as Ali Smith and James Kelman, this outstanding account traces the development of literature in Scotland and explores the cultural, linguistic and literary heritage of the nation. It includes extracts from the writing discussed to give a flavor of the original work, and its new research ranges from specially made translations of ancient poems to previously unpublished material from the Scottish Enlightenment and interviews with living writers. Informative and readable, this is the definitive single-volume guide to the marvelous legacy of Scottish literature.

Oxford University Press

From Treasure Island to Trainspotting, Scotland's rich literary tradition has influenced writing across centuries and cultures far beyond its borders. Here, for the first time, is a single volume presenting the glories of fifteen centuries of Scottish literature. In Scotland's Books the much loved poet Robert Crawford tells the story of Scottish imaginative writing and its relationship to the country's history. Stretching from the medieval masterpieces of St. Columba's Iona - the earliest surviving Scottish work - to the energetic world of twenty-first-century writing by authors such as Ali Smith and James Kelman, this outstanding account traces the development of literature in Scotland and explores the cultural, linguistic and literary heritage of the nation. It includes extracts from the writing discussed to give a flavor of the original work, and its new research ranges from specially made translations of ancient poems to previously unpublished material from the Scottish Enlightenment and interviews with living writers. Informative and readable, this is the definitive single-volume guide to the marvelous legacy of Scottish literature.

Devolving English Literature

British & Irish

Devolving English Literature questions the manner in which an assumed English cultural center has controlled the way we read since the eighteenth century. It interrogates the Anglocentricity of the subject of "English Literature," demonstrating how it has governed our reading of un-English and "provincial" texts. Discussing English, American, Irish, Australian, and other writings, Crawford concentrates on Scottish literature, which furnishes the most extended and acute model of a culture concerned with maintaining and developing its own identity while engaging with England's linguistic and political dominance. Starting with the eighteenth-century "Scottish invention of English Literature", Crawford traces the evolution of a distinctively British Literature. This process culminated in Scott who, with Carlyle, encouraged nineteenth-century American writing and left rich legacies both to anthropology and the literary Modernism of Eliot, Pound, and others. This essentially provincial phenomenon of Modernism underwrites even Larkin, as well as such sophisticated post-British "barbarian" poets as Heaney, Harrison, Dunn, Murray, and Walcott. Devolving English Literature makes a major contribution to the current debates regarding English-speaking literary culture and the participation in it of non-English speakers, arguing for devolutionary readings, alert to nuances of cultural difference.

Primitive and metropolitan life nourished T. S. Eliot's imagination and emerged as recurrent themes in his work. Examining these twin concerns, Robert Crawford sheds new light on the poet's achievement--particularly those works that culminated in The Waste Land and Sweeney Agonistes--and clarifies Eliot's relentless obsession with "savages" and sophisticates.

The Savage and the City in the Work of T.S. Eliot (Oxford English Monographs)

Clarendon Press

Primitive and metropolitan life nourished T. S. Eliot's imagination and emerged as recurrent themes in his work. Examining these twin concerns, Robert Crawford sheds new light on the poet's achievement--particularly those works that culminated in The Waste Land and Sweeney Agonistes--and clarifies Eliot's relentless obsession with "savages" and sophisticates.

Addressed to all readers of poetry, this is a wide-ranging book about the poet's role throughout the last three centuries. It argues that a conception of the poets as both primitive and sophisticated emerged in the 1750s. Whether considering Ossian and the Romantics, Victorian scholar-gipsies, Modernist poetries of knowledge, or contemporary poetry in Britain, Ireland, and America, The Modern Poet shows how many successive generations of poets have needed to collaborate and to battle with academia.

The Modern Poet: Poetry, Academia, and Knowledge since the 1750s

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Young Eliot: From St Louis to The Waste Land

Scotlands Books: The Penguin History Of Scottish Literature

New Penguin Book Of Scottish Verse

Scotland's Books: A History of Scottish Literature

Scotland's Books: A History of Scottish Literature

Devolving English Literature

Devolving English Literature

The Savage and the City in the Work of T.S. Eliot (Oxford English Monographs)

The Savage and the City in the Work of T.S. Eliot (Oxford English Monographs)

The Modern Poet: Poetry, Academia, and Knowledge since the 1750s