Young Eliot (107 page)

Robert Crawford
is the author of
Scotland's Books
and the coeditor of
The Penguin Book of Scottish Verse
. A fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the British Academy, he is the Professor of Modern Scottish Literature at the University of St. Andrews.
The Bard
, his biography of Robert Burns, was named the Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year in 2009. Crawford's seven poetry collections include
Testament
and
Full Volume
, which was short-listed for the T. S. Eliot Prize. He lives in Scotland. You can sign up for email updates
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ALSO BY
ROBERT CRAWFORD

NONFICTION

The Savage and the City in the Work of T. S. Eliot

Devolving English Literature

Identifying Poets: Self and Territory in Twentieth-Century Poetry

The Modern Poet

Scotland's Books: The Penguin History of Scottish Literature

The Bard: Robert Burns, A Biography

Bannockburns

On Glasgow and Edinburgh

Robert Burns and Cultural Authority
(editor)

The Scottish Invention of English Literature
(editor)

Contemporary Poetry and Contemporary Science
(editor)

POETRY

A Scottish Assembly

Sharawaggi
(with W. N. Herbert)

Talkies

Masculinity

Spirit Machines

The Tip of My Tongue

Selected Poems

Apollos of the North

Full Volume

Simonides

Testament

ANTHOLOGIES

Other Tongues: Young Scottish Poets in English, Scots and Gaelic
(editor)

The Penguin Book of Poetry from Britain and Ireland since 1945
(editor with Simon Armitage)

The New Penguin Book of Scottish Verse
(editor with Mick Imlah)

Scottish Religious Poetry
(editor with Meg Bateman and James McGonigal)

The Book of St Andrews
(editor)

 

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Contents

Title Page

Copyright Notice

Dedication

Frontispiece

Introduction

  
1    Tom

  
2    Hi, Kid, Let's Dance

  
3    Schoolings

  
4    A Full-Fledged Harvard Man

  
5    A Rose

  
6    Secret Knowledge

  
7    Voyages

  
8    A Philosopher and Actor Falls in Love

  
9    The Oxford Year

10    V. S. Eliot

11    Observations

12    American

13    Old Man

14    Professional

15    To Lausanne

16    
The Waste Land

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Notes

Index

Photographs

List of Plates

A Note About the Author

Also by Robert Crawford

Copyright

 

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Originally published in 2015 by Jonathan Cape, Great Britain

Published in the United States by Farrar, Straus and Giroux

First American edition, 2015

 

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Crawford, Robert, 1959–

    Young Eliot: from St. Louis to The Waste Land / Robert Crawford.

        pages   cm

    Includes index.

    ISBN 978-0-374-27944-8 (hardback) — ISBN 978-1-4299-5176-0 (e-book)

    1.  Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888–1965.   2.  Poets, American— 20th century—Biography.   I.  Title.

    PS3509.L43 Z6545 2015

    821'.912—dc23

    [B]

2014047118

 

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