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Michael Hastings
Art of the Personal
T S Eliot
By Peter Ackroyd
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Richard Davenport-Hines
Yours Chastely, Tom
The Hyacinth Girl: T S Eliot’s Hidden Muse
By Lyndall Gordon
Mary & Mr Eliot: A Sort of Love Story
By Mary Trevelyan & Erica Wagner
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Hilary Davies
Whispers of Immortality
The Gloucester Notebook
By T S Eliot (Edited by Robert Hyde)
The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem
By Matthew Hollis
Eliot After The Waste Land
By Robert Crawford
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December 2021 Issue
Stephen Romer
I Shall Wear Austin Reed
The Letters of T S Eliot, Volume 9: 1939–1941
By Valerie Eliot & John Haffenden (edd)
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December 2020 Issue
Elizabeth Lowry
Marriage Made in Hell
The Fall of a Sparrow: Vivien Eliot’s Life & Writings
By Ann Pasternak Slater
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April 1990 Issue
Jim Holt
Jim Holt Returns to the Bathroom for a Smoke
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February 1985 Issue
Craig Raine
Stylistic Prohibition
The New Oxford Book of Eighteenth Century Verse
By Roger Lonsdale
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April 1999 Issue
David Profumo
Gracile but Ludic in its Martianism
The Plato Papers
By Peter Ackroyd
June 2017 Issue
David Wheatley
He Was Afraid of Cows
The Letters of T S Eliot, Volume 7: 1934–1935
By Valerie Eliot & John Haffenden (edd)
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November 1988 Issue
Wendy Brandmark
He Delivered a Pair of Old Shoes to James Joyce
The Letters of T S Eliot: Volume I 1898-1922
By Valerie Eliot (Ed)
Eliot’s New Life
By Lyndall Gordon
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December 2015 Issue
Robert Crawford
Poems, Possum & Pram
The Poems of T S Eliot: Volume I, Collected and Uncollected Poems
By Christopher Ricks & Jim McCue (edd)
The Poems of T S Eliot: Volume II, Practical Cats and Further Verses
By Christopher Ricks & Jim McCue (edd)
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February 2015 Issue
Seamus Perry
Possum Emerges
Young Eliot: From St Louis to The Waste Land
By Robert Crawford
The Letters of T S Eliot: Volume 5, 1930–1931
By Valerie Eliot & John Haffenden (edd)
December 2009 Issue
Richard Davenport-Hines
Saving His Soul
The Letters of T S Eliot, Volume Two: 1923–1925
By Valerie Eliot and Hugh Haughton (ed)
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July 2012 Issue
David Collard
Possum Agonistes
The Letters of T S Eliot, Volume 3: 1926–1927
By Valerie Eliot & John Haffenden (ed)
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May 2013 Issue
Richard Davenport-Hines
Lodging with Old Possum
Tarantula’s Web: John Hayward, T S Eliot and Their Circle
By John Smart
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