Eliot After “The Waste Land” ; by Robert Crawford; Farrar, Straus, Giroux; 592 pp., $35 Arguably, one of them was Vivien Haigh-Wood Eliot, the poet’s first wife, whom he abandoned and later ...

Not even great poets can live off their poetry ... T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land,” to quote the description in Robert Crawford’s mesmerizing new book, was — and is — a poem ...

ELIOT AFTER “THE WASTE LAND,” by Robert Crawford Almost exactly 100 years ... s enormous significance and influence — the American poet William Carlos Williams, who viewed Eliot’s poetic ...

Withdrawn and prejudiced, the poet is hard to warm to – but Robert Crawford’s new biography shows how Eliot’s second marriage transformed his life. By Erica Wagner It is impossible not to be moved by ...

Should we read poetry, for example, with an eye on biography, or merely focus on the verse itself? These questions hover over Eliot After The Waste Land, Robert Crawford's new biography of T.S ...