{"product_id":"9780571316328","title":"The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 5: 1930-1931 by T.S. Eliot","description":"The book amounts to a comprehensive literary history of the time.' David Sexton, Evening StandardVolume 5 of The Letters of T. S. Eliot finds the poet, between the ages of forty-two and forty-four, reckoning with the strict implications of his Christian faith for his life, his work, and his poetry.   The letters between Eliot and his  associates, family and friends - his correspondents range from the  Archbishop of York and the American philosopher Paul Elmer More to the  writers Virginia Woolf, Herbert Read and Ralph Hodgson  - serve to illuminate the ways in which his Anglo-Catholic convictions  could, at times, prove a self-chastising and even alienating force.  'Anyone who has been moving among intellectual circles and comes to the  Church, may experience an odd and rather exhilarating feeling of  isolation,' he remarks. Notwithstanding, he becomes fully involved in  doctrinal controversy: he espouses the Church as an arena of discipline  and order.   Eliot's relationship with his wife, Vivien, continues to be turbulent,  and at times desperate, as her mental health deteriorates and the  communication between husband and wife threatens, at the coming end of  the year, to break down completely. At the close of this volume Eliot  will accept a visiting professorship at Harvard University, which will  take him away from England and Vivien for the academic year 1932-33.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56292687806837,"sku":"9780571316328","price":50.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780571316328.jpg?v=1762750816","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9780571316328","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}