July 13, 2012

Books

The Hollowed Man

The Letters of T. S. EliotEdited by Valerie Eliot and Hugh Haughton Yale University Press

Christopher J. Knight

On New Year’s Eve 1925, the last day covered in the second and most recent volume of T. S. Eliot’s letters, the poet wrote to F. Scott Fitzgerald to thank him for the gift of The Great Gatsby. The novelist had written in the flyleaf, “For T. S. Elliot [sic] / Greatest of Living Poets / from his enthusiastic / worshipper / F. Scott Fitzgerald,” and the poet wrote back to (...)


 

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about the writer

Christopher J. Knight is a professor of English at the University of Montana. His most recent book is Omissions Are Not Accidents: Modern Apophaticism from Henry James to Jacques Derrida (University of Toronto Press, 2010).

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