The world broke in two : Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, D.H. Lawrence, E.M. Forster and the year that changed literature / Bill Goldstein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goldstein, Bill, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan), 1879-1970.

Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert), 1885-1930.

Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965.

Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941.

English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

English fiction.

Nineteen twenty-two, A.D.

Modernism (Literature)--Great Britain.

Modernism (Literature).

Criticism and interpretation.

Literature and society.

History.

Great Britain.

Literature and society--History--20th century.

Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941--Criticism and interpretation.

Woolf, Virginia.

Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965--Criticism and interpretation.

Eliot, T. S.

Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert), 1885-1930--Criticism and interpretation.

Lawrence, D. H.

Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan), 1879-1970--Criticism and interpretation.

Forster, E. M.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

x, 351 page, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Henry Holt and Co., 2017.

Summary:

"A revelatory narrative of the intersecting lives and works of revered authors Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster and D. H. Lawrence during 1922, the birth year of modernism The World Broke in Two tells the fascinating story of the intellectual and personal journeys four legendary writers, Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster, and D. H. Lawrence, make over the course of one pivotal year. As 1922 begins, all four are literally at a loss for words, confronting an uncertain creative future despite success in the past. The literary ground is shifting, as Ulysses is published in February and Proust's In Search of Lost Time begins to be published in England in the autumn. Yet, dismal as their prospects seemed in January, by the end of the year Woolf has started Mrs. Dalloway, Forster has, for the first time in nearly a decade, returned to work on the novel that will become A Passage to India, Lawrence has written Kangaroo, his unjustly neglected and most autobiographical novel, and Eliot has finished--and published to acclaim--"The Waste Land." As Willa Cather put it, "The world broke in two in 1922 or thereabouts," and what these writers were struggling with that year was in fact the invention of modernism. Based on original research, The WorldBroke in Two captures both the literary breakthroughs and the intense personal dramas of these beloved writers as they strive for greatness. "-- Provided by publisher.

"A literary history of the year 1922 in the lives of Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, E.M. Forster, and T.S. Eliot"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1 Virginia Woolf Nears Forty 11

2 Eliot in January 30

3 Edward Morgan Forster 56

4 "Somewhere Away by Myself" 77

5 "The Greatest Waste Now Going On in Letters" 94

6 "Without a Novel & With No Power to Write One" 113

7 "The Usual Fabulous Zest" 123

8 "English in the Teeth of All the World" 141

9 "Do Not Forget Your Ever Friend" 159

10 "Eliot Dined Last Sunday & Read His Poem" 173

11 Women in Love in Court 187

12 The Waste Land in New York 207

13 "I Like Being with My Dead" 221

14 A September Weekend with the Woolves 231

15 David and Frieda Arrive in Taos 249

16 "Mrs Dalloway Has Branched into a Book" 265

17 "What More Is Necessary to a Great Poem?" 278.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Sargent Fund bookplate.

ISBN:

9780805094022

0805094024