Craig Raine

T.S. Eliot’s preoccupations in wartime Britain

The poet’s concern with the shortage of basic goods, including lavatory paper and batteries, emerges in the latest volume of letters, covering 1939-41

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  • The Letters of T.S. Eliot, Volume Nine: 1939-1941

    John Haffenden and Valerie Eliot

    Faber, pp. 1144, £60

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