Eliot's early years

Early Models -- A New England Student -- Beyond Philosophy -- Eliot's Ordeals -- The Waste Land Traversed -- Conversion. Lyndall Gordon. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. [164]-167. An account of T.S Eliot's early years coinciding with the publication of "Eliot's New Life" (OUP), which attempts to provide a biographical profile of the poet, as well as a critical interpretation of "The Waste Land" and other early works. "Traces Eliot's journey across the 'waste land' to his conversion to Anglo-Catholicism at the age of thirty-eight." -- Dust jacket