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Painted Shadow: The Life of Vivienne Eliot, First Wife of T. S. Eliot - This astonishing portrait of Vivienne Eliot, first wife of poet T.S. Eliot, gives a voice to the woman who, for seventeen years, had shared a unique literary partnership with Eliot but who was scapegoated for the failure of the marriage and all but obliterated from historical record. In so doing, Painted Shadow opens the way to a new understanding of Eliots poetry. Vivienne longed to tell her whole story; she wrote in her diary: You who in later years will read these very words of mine will be able to trace a true history of this epoch. She believed (as did Virginia Woolf) that she was Eliots muse, the woman through whom he transmuted life into art. Yet Vivienne knew the secrets of his separate and secret life which contributed to her own deepening hysteria, drug addiction, and final abandonment: the tragedy of a marriage that paired a repressed yet sensual man with an extroverted woman who longed for a full sexual relationship with her husband. Out of this emotional turbulence came one of the most important English poems of the twentieth century: The Waste Land, which Carole Seymour-Jones convincingly shows cannot be fully understood without reference to the relationship of the poet and his first wife. Drawing on papers both privately owned and in university library archives and, most importantly, on Vivienne Eliots own journals left to the Bodleian Library, Oxford, Carole Seymour-Jones uses many hitherto unpublished sources and opens the way to a new understanding of Eliots poetry.


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⚡️Book Title : Painted Shadow: The Life of Vivienne Eliot, First Wife of T. S. Eliot
⚡Book Author : Carole Seymour-Jones
⚡Page : 736 pages
⚡Published October 14th 2003 by Anchor (first published October 25th 2001)

Painted Shadow: The Life of Vivienne Eliot, First Wife of T. S. Eliot

This astonishing portrait of Vivienne Eliot, first wife of poet T.S. Eliot, gives a voice to the woman who, for seventeen years, had shared a unique literary partnership with Eliot but who was scapegoated for the failure of the marriage and all but obliterated from historical record. In so doing, Painted Shadow opens the way to a new understanding of Eliots poetry. Vivienne longed to tell her whole story; she wrote in her diary: You who in later years will read these very words of mine will be able to trace a true history of this epoch. She believed (as did Virginia Woolf) that she was Eliots muse, the woman through whom he transmuted life into art. Yet Vivienne knew the secrets of his separate and secret life which contributed to her own deepening hysteria, drug addiction, and final abandonment: the tragedy of a marriage that paired a repressed yet sensual man with an extroverted woman who longed for a full sexual relationship with her husband. Out of this emotional turbulence came one of the most important English poems of the twentieth century: The Waste Land, which Carole Seymour-Jones convincingly shows cannot be fully understood without reference to the relationship of the poet and his first wife. Drawing on papers both privately owned and in university library archives and, most importantly, on Vivienne Eliots own journals left to the Bodleian Library, Oxford, Carole Seymour-Jones uses many hitherto unpublished sources and opens the way to a new understanding of Eliots poetry.

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