Craig Raine

Was he anti-Semitic?

Letters give us the life as lived — day-to-day, shapeless, haphazard, contingent, imperfect, authentic.

issue 14 November 2009

  • The Letters of T. S. Eliot, Volume I 1898-1922

    Valerie Eliot and Hugh Haughton (editors)

    Faber, pp. 871

  • The Letters of T. S. Eliot, Volume II, 1923-1925

    Valerie Eliot and Hugh Haughton (editors)

    Faber, pp. 878

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