The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 2: 1923-1925, edited by Valerie Eliot, covers the early years of T. S. Eliot's editorship of The Criterion, the publication of The Hollow Men and the course of Eliot's thinking about poetry and poetics after The Waste Land.
T.S. Eliot was born in St Louis, Missouri in 1888. He settled in England in 1915, the year in which he married Vivienne Haigh-Wood. In 1919 Poems was hand-printed by Leonard and Virginia Woolf. His first collection of essays, The Sacred Wood, appeared in 1920. His most famous work, The Waste Land, was published in 1922. The poem was included in the first issue of his journal The Criterion, which he founded and edited. Three years later he became a director of Faber and Gwyer, later Faber and Faber. His Poems 1909-25 was one of the original titles published by Geoffrey Faber's new firm, and the basis of his standard Collected Poems 1909-1962. Ash Wednesday was published in 1930. In 1939 The Family Reunion and his children's classic Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats were published. His masterpiece Four Quartets began with 'Burnt Norton' in 1936, continued with 'East Coker'
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