![]() ![]() It contains the earliest extant copies of poems he wrote at the moment of his formative encounter with the work of the French poet Jules Laforgue, and reveals how his style changed at that point. ![]() The Gloucester Notebook is a facsimile edition of a manuscript notebook that the youthful Eliot entitled ‘Inventions of the March Hare’. Is there more to be discovered? Robert Hyde, Matthew Hollis and Robert Crawford clearly think so, and these three books neatly cover virtually the full span of Eliot’s creative career. The anniversary was inevitably going to be the occasion of revisits, reappraisals and revisions, despite the already dense forest of Eliot scholarship. In the end, time would agree with this last assessment. ![]() At its appearance, The Waste Land polarised critical opinion: ‘a grunt would serve equally well’, ‘a thing of bitterness and beauty’, ‘a pompous parade of erudition’, ‘one of the most moving and original poems of our time’. T his October marks the centenary of the publication of arguably the most influential poem written in English in the 20th century. ![]()
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