Letter to Norman Nicholson, Cumberland [manuscript], 1949 October 24.

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Letter to Norman Nicholson, Cumberland [manuscript], 1949 October 24.

Eliot discusses revisions to Nicholson's "Prophecy to the wind" and his own "The cocktail party" which were necessary after the opening night performances. He also comments briefly on some of Nicholson's poetry.

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University of Virginia. 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...

Nicholson, Norman, 1914-1987

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British poet Norman Nicholson also wrote verse dramas, novels, literary biography and criticism, and an autobiography titled Wednesday Early Closing . In addition he was an editor of anthologies and gave readings and lectures. Born January 08, 1914, in Millom, Cumberland (now Cumbria), England, Nicholson began writing poetry at the age of twenty-two. The first appearance of his poems in a book was the publication in 1943 of Selected Poems, a ...