TY - BOOK AU - Worthen,John TI - T.S. Eliot: a short biography SN - 1906598355 (hbk.) PY - 2009/// CY - London PB - Haus Pub. KW - Eliot, T. S. KW - Poets, American KW - 20th century KW - Biography N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-313) and index; Where one starts from -- Pose and poetry -- Marriage -- Literary life, Sweeney and other selves -- "The Waste Land" -- Sweeney at large -- Conversion: what kind of new life? -- "Ash-Wednesday" and the ending of a marriage -- Torment and Four quartets -- Eminence and theatre -- My daughter N2 - This biography frees T.S. Eliot from his cold and unemotional image. It offers a sympathetic study of his first marriage which does not attempt to blame, but to understand; it shows how Eliot's poetry can be read for its revelations about his inner world ER -