Eliot’s Early Years

This is an account of T.S.Eliot’s early life and works, which attempts to provide, not only a biographical profile of the poet’s early years, but also a critical analysis of the poetry of those years, most notably The Wasteland . Lyndall Gordon is author of Virginia Woolf and Eliot’s New Life . She won the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize 1978, for Eliot’s Early Years .