Category: Publications

To mark the publication of the latest volume of The Letters of T. S. Eliot, we reproduce here John Haffenden’s preface, courtesy of Faber & Faber. The book can be purchased here.

Preface to The Letters of T.

The definitive edition of T. S. Eliot’s published prose, edited by Archie Burnett, is published today by Faber & Faber. 

The Collected Prose presents those works that Eliot allowed to reach print in the order of their final revision or printing. READ

The Fall of a Sparrow, a new work on the life and writings of Vivien Eliot by Ann Pasternak-Slater, is published by Faber & Faber today. Based on a rich repository of primary evidence, much only recently uncovered, it corrects the accidental inaccuracies and deliberate distortions that have circulated around one of Bloomsbury’s most gossiped-about, enigmatic couples, while unveiling fascinating new discoveries that give a more balanced understanding of both partners. READ

Volume 7 of The Complete Prose of T. S. Eliot, edited by Iman Javadi and Ronald Schuchard and published by John Hopkins University Press, is now available online. This penultimate volume of Eliot’s collected prose covers the period 1947-1953 and includes twenty-five previously unpublished pieces. READ

This month sees the publication of The sixth volume of The Complete Prose of T. S. Eliot covering The war years, 1940-1946. The volume, published online by The Johns Hopkins University Press, includes twenty-seven works that were previously unpublished and a further thirty-eight that were unrecorded in Donald Gallup’s bibliography and are likely to be unfamiliar to Eliot’s readers. READ

John Haffenden reflects on his edition of the Letters of T. S. Eliot, Volume 7: 1934-1935, which is to be published by Faber & Faber on 1 June.

Perhaps the most newsworthy aspect of volume 7 of the Letters of T. READ