Thank you to the talented members of The Artists’ Quarter who generously contributed their artwork to the galleries ‘Pure Silver’ and ‘Movement’. All those illustrations, along with the poems which inspired them, are available as sophisticated eBooks at Pure Silver and Movement – a third choice, you can read each poem on its own webpage via our Poems page. Or simply view the illustrations via the galleries below.
There are other galleries too; each is open to further works being added.
Selected by Eliot from his 'Collected Poems 1909-1935', this 1954 'paper covered' introduction to his work, we are informed inside the front cover, was available as 'a more durable edition at 9s 6d, strongly bound in cloth'.
T S Eliot in 1923
Thomas Stearns Eliot photographed by Lady Ottoline Morrell, in 1923.
East Coker Church
'A cold coming we had of it...' - the opening line of Eliot's Journey of the Magi. And here's the memorial plaque to T S Eliot in a cold corner of the village church in East Coker, near Yeovil, in the south of Somerset, UK.
Lady Ottoline Morrell
Friend of Eliot and many other writers and artists, society hostess Lady Ottoline Morrell in 1902 - she took a portrait of Eliot shown in this gallery.
Last page of a letter from Thos S Elliot
Elliot's reaction to Ted Hughes, at Faber & Faber
Elliot's view on Lawrence Durrell's sibmission to Faber & Faber
Elliot at his desk at Faber & Faber
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
Photo: Jurassic Coast (UK World Heritage Site in Devon & Dorset).
Thank you to the talented members of The Artists’ Quarter who generously contributed their artwork to the galleries ‘Pure Silver’ and ‘Movement’. All those illustrations, along with the poems which inspired them, are available as sophisticated eBooks at Pure Silver and Movement – a third choice, you can read each poem on its own webpage via our Poems page. Or simply view the illustrations via the galleries below.
