Steven Carroll reimagines the life and times of T.S. Eliot and his first wife, Vivienne

  • Written by: Kieran Dolin, Professor, English and Cultural Studies, The University of Western Australia
Steven Carroll reimagines the life and times of T.S. Eliot and his first wife, VivienneSteven CarrollTracey Nearmy/AAP

This year is the centenary of T.S. Eliot’s revolutionary modernist poem, The Waste Land (1922). Steven Carroll’s new novel, Goodnight, Vivienne, Goodnight, sympathetically reimagines the life of Vivienne Haigh-Wood, Eliot’s first wife, and reflects on his life and poetry. Its publication is both...

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