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Lyndall Gordon's 2022 Biography of T. S. Eliot, and Walter J. Ong's Thought

Farrell, Thomas
2022-11
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Lyndall Gordon's 2022 Biography of T. S. Eliot, and Walter J. Ong's Thought

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In my 7,400-word review essay "Lyndall Gordon's 2022 Biography of T. S. Eliot, and Walter J. Ong's Thought," I highlight Lyndall Gordon's new book The Hyacinth Girl: T. S. Eliot's Hidden Muse (W. W. Norton & Company) -- her fourth biography of the American-born Nobel Prize winning poet Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965). The hyacinth girls in Eliot's famous 1922 poem The Waste Land is Emily Hale (1891-1969). On January 2, 2020, Princeton University's library opened the letters of Eliot to Emily Hale that she had deposited there. Based on his letters to her, Gordon refers to her as Eliot's hidden muse. In addition to highlighting Gordon's new book, I also highlight the life and work of the internationally prominent American Jesuit Renaissance specialist and cultural historian Walter J. Ong (1912-2003; Ph.D. in English, Harvard University, 1955).

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