T.S. Eliot was poised to be the top poet of his generation. But first he had to be rescued from his day job. In 1921, suffering from a “nervous disorder,” T.S. Eliot took a three-month hiatus ...

T.S. Eliot & Ezra Pound: Collaborators in Letters “I think of a friend who, in the early days, was as much concerned with the encouragement and improvement of the work of unknown writers in whom ...

Modernist poet Ezra Pound (b. 1885) is known for advancing the work of such contemporaries as William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, and especially T. S. Eliot. A ...

Ezra Pound, who had helped Eliot launch his writing career, pushed him to marry Vivien as a way to keep him in England. Recommended Stories. ... In this biography of T.S. Eliot, ...

Walt Whitman (1819-1892) was one of the premier poets of American verse, and one of the most influential poets in both American and world literature.

It is well known that Eliot’s great friend Poet Ezra Pound had been a severe editor who cajoled, bullied or advised Eliot to cut out half of what Pound described, with characteristically ...

One hundred years after T.S. Eliot’s disconcerting poem “The Waste Land ... Eliot dedicated his poem to Ezra Pound with the dedicatory line “il miglior fabbro”— the better craftsman.

A DRAFT OF XXX CANTOS—Ezra Pound—Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). Though Thomas Stearns Eliot is now the mummified god of a large school of present-day poetasters, where two or three ...

When Ted Hughes met T. S. Eliot in the 1960s, ... Ezra Pound—Paris, 1922—licks the nib of his pencil and slashes entire sequences, entire movements, from Eliot’s new poem.

James Joyce and T.S. Eliot: Writers and Bankers ‘It is a crime against literature to let him waste 8 hours of vitality per diem in that bank,’ wrote Ezra Pound of Eliot. Share ...

TS Eliot published his modernist goliath of a poem ‘The Waste Land’ in December 1922 ... I became fascinated by Ezra Pound and the part he played in the editing of The Waste Land.

T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He settled in London in 1915 and became a British citizen in 1927. Encouraged by Ezra Pound, he began publishing his work in 1915 and soon ...