{"product_id":"book-hvz5","title":"Young Eliot","description":"Award-winning biographer Robert Crawford's \u003ci\u003eYoung Eliot\u003c\/i\u003e traces the life of the twentieth century's most important poet from his childhood in St. Louis to the publication of his revolutionary poem \u003ci\u003eThe Waste Land\u003c\/i\u003e. Crawford provides listeners with a new understanding of the foundations of some of the most widely read poems in the English language through his depiction of Eliot's childhood as well as through his exploration of Eliot's marriage to Vivien Haigh-Wood, a woman who believed she loved Eliot \"in a way that destroys us both.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eQuoting extensively from Eliot's poetry and prose as well as drawing on new interviews, archives, and previously undisclosed memoirs, Crawford shows how the poet's background in Missouri, Massachusetts, and Paris made him a lightning rod for modernity. Most impressively, \u003ci\u003eYoung Eliot\u003c\/i\u003e reveals the way he accessed his inner life—his anguishes and his fears—and blended them with his omnivorous reading to create his masterpieces \"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock\" and \u003ci\u003eThe Waste Land\u003c\/i\u003e. At last, we experience T. S. Eliot in all his tender complexity as student and lover, penitent and provocateur, banker and philosopher—but most of all, \u003ci\u003eYoung Eliot\u003c\/i\u003e shows us as an epoch-shaping poet struggling to make art among personal disasters.","brand":"Tantor","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49351214367024,"sku":"BDhvz5","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":49351214399792,"sku":"ZEhvz5","price":69.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio MP3-CD","offer_id":49351214858544,"sku":"ZMhvz5","price":59.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/hvz5-Square-cover.jpg?v=1780398408","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-hvz5","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}