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William James, Harvard’s first professor of Psychology, was probably the most famous Theosophist from Cambridge, Massachusetts. (It was here where James William James, Harvard’s first professor of Psychology, was probably the most famous Theosophist from Cambridge, Massachusetts.

“It’s always tempting for readers to read novels about people like themselves,” says the author, whose latest novel is “A Dangerous Business.” “One of the benefits of literature classes in school is that kids get an early exposure to people who are not like them.”

“Eliot After ‘The Waste Land,’” the second volume of Robert Crawford’s two-part biography, offers some answers — and some revelations.

When Virginia Woolf called Thomas Stearns Eliot an “unhappy man wrapt up in fibres of self-torture, doubt, and conceit,” she may have suspected that he would ruin several women’s lives.

Withdrawn and prejudiced, the poet is hard to warm to – but Robert Crawford's new biography shows how Eliot’s second marriage transformed his life.

Young Eliot: From St Louis to The Waste Land (Eliot Biographies, 1) by Crawford, Robert at AbeBooks.co.uk - ISBN 10:  009955495X - ISBN 13:  9780099554950 - Vintage - 2016 - Softcover

Robert Crawford’s Eliot After The Waste Land paints the poet as an emotionally twisted anti-Semite. Does it diminish his verse?

The book is a humane and creative remixing of biography, poetry and social history that speaks to current concerns about personal identity and recognition.

The intimate connections between life and art are explored in the deeply satisfying conclusion to a quartet of novels about one of the greatest poets of the 20th century.

The intimate connections between life and art are explored in the deeply satisfying conclusion to a quartet of novels about one of the greatest poets of the 20th century.