T. S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot letters to Geoffrey Curtis, 1930-1964.

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T. S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot letters to Geoffrey Curtis, 1930-1964.

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Eliot's signed typescript letters to Curtis are wide-ranging, touching on religion, poetry, writing, social engagements, professional obligations, travel plans, and domestic matters, often delving into spiritual questions. The collection includes a typescript (carbon) draft of Eliot's poem, The cultivation of Christmas trees, and letters to Curtis from Frederick Wilse Bateson and Mervyn Sweet.

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Houghton 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...

Sweet, Mervyn.

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Bateson, Frederick Wilse, 1901-1978

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The Longman Annotated English Poets series began publishing in 1965 under the editorship of Professor F.W. Bateson. From the guide to the Papers relating to the, Longman Annotated English Poets, series, particularly a planned edition of Chaucer, 1959-1986, (Leeds University Library) Frederick Wilse Bateson was a Fellow and Tutor in English Literature at Corpus Christi College, Oxford as well as a writer. He was born on Dec. 25, 1901 in Styal, Cheshire, England. ...

Curtis, Geoffrey

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