The Waste Land

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“Excellent and absorbing.… A very intelligent and sympathetic study.” “An acute and unforgettable moving study of friendship and creativity.” “Engaging.… Hollis is adept at evoking the atmosphere of the time and at negotiating the complicated friendships and squabbles between… poets.… Hollis captures something far greater than a man’s personal life, and far more elusive: the desire and struggle to write.” “[An] elegant and melancholy biography.… Hollis makes the ingenious case that Thomas’s embrace of poetry after years of timid false starts was his greatest act of courage.” “With calm grace and candid respect, Hollis gives contemporary relevance to the last powerful works of [Edward Thomas].” “Brilliant and superbly written.… Thomas is fortunate indeed to have attracted a biographer who measures up to his own giant stature.” “[An] excellent account… beautifully structured by place, year and season.” “The best book about poetry… moving and insightful.… By its end the book is the perfect setting for Thomas’s perfect poems.” “Thoughtful and scrupulous… a bravura critical performance.” A riveting account of the making of T. S. Eliot’s celebrated poem   on its centenary.

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