T.S. Eliot Correspondence, 1948-1998 (bulk 1948-1949)

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T.S. Eliot Correspondence, 1948-1998 (bulk 1948-1949)

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Collection of correspondence and related documentation between William H. Matchett and T.S. Eliot regarding the latter's Four Quartets. Matchett wrote his senior thesis for Swarthmore College on this work, and exchanged letters with Eliot in 1948 and 1949. Of particular interest is T.S. Eliot's discussion of the evolution of the sequence of the poem and his use of symbols. Also included is 1998 correspondence between Matchett and Richard Badenhausen in which the former confirms that he was the American student mentioned in the translation of Quatre Quators and cited in Helen Gardner's The Composition of Four Quartets (1978).

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Swarthmore College, McCabe Library

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Swarthmore College, McCabe Library

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Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965

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Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965), a poet, critic, editor, and playwright, was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He received a B. A. in 1909 and an M. A. in 1910 from Harvard, where he also pursued a doctoral degree in philosophy. In 1915, he married Vivienne (Vivien) Haigh-Wood. He completed his dissertation in 1916 while living in England and submitted it to Harvard, but was unable to defend it. He was literary editor of the avant-garde magazine The Egoist. In the Spring 1917, he publishe...

Matchett, William H., 1923-

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William Henry Matchett is a poet and Emeritus Professor of Literature at the University of Washington. Born in 1923 in Chicago, IL, Matchett earmed a B.A. (1949) from Swarthmore College, and an M.A. (1950) and PhD. (1957) from Harvard University. He began teaching at the University of Washington in Seattle in 1954, and was appointed a full professor in 1966. A member of the Society of Friends, Matchett was Chair of the executive committee of the Pacific Northwest office ...

Badenhausen, Richard

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