Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 7: 1934-1935, The

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T. S. Eliot's career as a successful stage dramatist gathers pace throughout the fascinating letters of this volume. Even while absorbed in time-consuming theatre work, Eliot was untiring in promoting the writers on Faber's ever broadening lists - George Barker, Marianne Moore and Djuna Barnes among them. Having separated from his wife Vivien in 1933, he is anxious to avoid running into her; but she refuses to comprehend that her husband has chosen to leave her and stalks him across literary society, leading to his place of work at the offices of Faber & Faber.

Valerie Eliot edited T. S. Eliot: The Waste Land, a Facsimile & Transcript of the Original Drafts (1971) and The Letters of T. S. Eliot, Volume 1: 1898-1922 (1988), Volume 2: 1923-1925 (2009), Volume 3: 1926-1927 (2011), Volume 4: 1928-1929 (2013), Volume 5: 1930-1931 (2014) and Volume 6: 1932-1933 (2016). Valerie Eliot died in 2012. John Haffenden is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Sheffield, Senior Research Fellow of the Institute of English Studies, University of London, and a Fellow of the British Academy. His publications include a biography of the American poet John Berryman; editions of the works of William Empson including the Complete Poems (2000); and an award-winning two-volume biography of Empson (2005, 2006). He was General Editor of The Letters of T. S. Eliot, volumes 1, 2 (2009), 3 (2011), 4 (2013), 5 (2014) and 6 (2016).