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Ironic nineteenth-century illustrations set off contributions from Mary Gordon and Marge Piercy, an interview with Denise Levertov, and a letter from Elizabeth Bishop who deplored women's writing as a separate thing. Eliots Ordeals. My deviant form of biography remained something to be cultivated in private, looking past the present to the future development of this genre, and hoping it might come into its own as an art.

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Lauren Albert. The Death Mask on looking into the life of Henry James. This was the perfect book at the perfect time, stripping away layers of Eliot's impersonality and obfuscation while leaving the central mysteries intact. My first wife was a lunatic, And I am an anti-semite Gordon does a good job of the "these opinions are odious; they don't negate everything Eliot ever did" tap-dance, but even she somehow overstates his misogyny and understates his own sense of shame at his anti-semitism.

Nothing like Four Quartets has been written, and now that England, and is a good thing he is not here to see it, has passed on.. Account Options Logga in. He's mentioned perpetually by all manner of people. I will not judge his private life under any pretext. I skipped quite a lot. The chapter on Four Quartets is amongst the most wonderful literary exploration I have ever read; the dedicated chapter on Emily Hale is absolutely heartbreaking; and throughout, Gordon places the man beside his work, not exactly drawing conclusions from the writing to apply to the man, but allowing us to see and feel the parallels.

In the seventies and eighties the structure of the teaching year, with its short eight-week terms and six-week vacations allowed ample time for research and writing. What did she gain from her feminist friend, Mary Taylor; from her demanding mentor, Monsieur Heger, and from her rising young publisher, George Smith?

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Eliot has won many dramatic accolades. The detail is impressive, though, as is the interpretation and judicious empathy given to Eliot's life. Justin Evans. A well written biography, not afraid to link the story of his life with his poetry. I stood on a bench against the wall together with a fellow-member of Carolyn Heilbrun's class on the novel where women's issues had come to the fore — we used to continue to discuss them with Heilbrun at the top of stairs on the sixth floor — the English floor - in Philosophy Hall.

I think Gordon was a little forgiving of him but generally writes a very interesting biography of a hard to understand character. It's funny, but it's really sad. She lived with them, cherished and reread them — whether it was poetry or Buber's I and Thou or women's writing. Oops, she married the wrong guy. PB : No. By the time she wrote this, Gordon had already written multiple books about Eliot's life, so the new discoveries take on an outsized importance.

Her account "rescues both the poet and the man from the simplifying abstractions that have always been applied to him" The New York Times , and is "definitive but not dogmatic, sympathetic without taking sides. The Mystery of. A New England Student.