Robert Crawford: Young Eliot: From St Louis to The Waste Land (Eliot Biographies, 1) [2016] paperback OCCUL It was the perfect refuge

It was the perfect refuge for a boy who tended to be something of a recluse

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Robert Crawford: Young Eliot: From St Louis to The Waste Land (Eliot Biographies, 1) [2016] paperback OCCUL It was the perfect refugePublished simultaneously in Britain and America to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the death of T. S. Eliot, this major biography traces the life of the twentieth century's most important poet from his childhood in the ragtime city of St Louis right up to the publication of his most famous poem, The Waste Land. Meticulously detailed and incisively written, Young Eliot portrays a brilliant, shy and wounded American who defied his parents' wishes and