{"title":"Robert Crawford","description":"\u003cp\u003eDiscover the literary world of Robert Crawford, a distinguished Scottish author whose works offer insightful journeys into the realms of biography and culture. With a keen eye for detail and a profound appreciation for the complexities of human experience, Crawford's books are a treasure trove for anyone interested in the intricate tapestry of 20th-century literature and art.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAmong his acclaimed works, \u003cem\u003eEliot After The Waste Land\u003c\/em\u003e stands out as a compelling exploration of the life and legacy of T.S. Eliot, delving deeper into the poet's world after his groundbreaking work, \"The Waste Land.\" This biography is not just an account of Eliot's life but a masterful narrative that captures the essence of an era and the evolution of a literary icon.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAnother gem in Crawford's collection is \u003cem\u003eOld World\u003c\/em\u003e, which offers a rich tapestry of cultural history, inviting readers to reflect on the past and its impact on modern society. Through his engaging storytelling and meticulous research, Crawford provides readers with a fresh perspective on the cultural threads that weave through history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhether you're a biography enthusiast or a lover of arts and culture, Robert Crawford's works promise a thoughtful and enriching reading experience that will leave you with a deeper understanding of both people and art across the ages.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"eliot-after-the-waste-land-by-robert-crawford-9781529925456","title":"Eliot After The Waste Land","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe second volume of Robert Crawford's magisterial biography of the revolutionary modernist, visionary poet and troubled man, drawing on extensive new sources.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this compelling and meticulous portrait of the twentieth century's most important poet, Robert Crawford completes the story he began in \u003cem\u003eYoung Eliot\u003c\/em\u003e. Drawing on extensive new sources and letters, this is the first full-scale biography to make use of Eliot's most significant surviving correspondence, including the archive of letters (unsealed for the first time in 2020) detailing his decades-long love affair with Emily Hale.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis long-awaited second volume, \u003cem\u003eEliot After The Waste Land\u003c\/em\u003e, tells the story of the mature Eliot, his years as a world-renowned writer and intellectual, and his troubled interior life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom his time as an exhausted bank employee after the publication of \u003cem\u003eThe Waste Land\u003c\/em\u003e, through the emotional turmoil of the 1920s and 1930s, and his years as a firewatcher in bombed wartime London, Crawford reveals the public and personal experiences that helped generate some of Eliot's masterpieces.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHe explores the poet's religious conversion, his editorship at Faber and Faber, his separation from Vivien Haigh-Wood and happy second marriage to Valerie Fletcher, and his great work \u003cem\u003eFour Quartets\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRobert Crawford presents this complex and remarkable man not as a literary monument but as a human being — as a husband, lover and widower, as a banker, editor, playwright and publisher, but most of all as an epoch-shaping poet struggling to make art among personal disasters.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46371127099628,"sku":"9781529925456","price":32.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/19676283482732.jpg?v=1744810221"},{"product_id":"old-world-by-robert-crawford-9781787334564","title":"Old World","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTraversing the globe, \u003cem\u003eOld World\u003c\/em\u003e is a generous, playful collection from a major Scots poet and biographer of T.S. Eliot.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOld World\u003c\/em\u003e is a generous, playful poetry collection about the issues facing our planet today, from a major Scots poet and biographer of T.S. Eliot.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'For intellectual range, emotional depth, and lexical shimmer, Crawford is unsurpassed' Sunday Herald\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMixing lyricism, play, and vulnerability, \u003cem\u003eOld World\u003c\/em\u003e explores the issues facing our planet in the twenty-first century, from European war to climate change and AI. From riddles and haikus to verse influenced by both Western and Eastern cultures, Crawford arrives at a sense of sacredness of life on earth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThese poems speak both of the menaced plenitude of living beings, and of frailties associated with growing old. Part of the book is given over to voices of creatures from the non-human world, part to human voices, but boundaries between these categories become mischievously and disconcertingly unstable.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWriting out of older Scottish traditions that are intellectually deft and linguistically complex, Robert Crawford stands as a contemporary master of poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'A poet of great importance... fluent, inventive, funny, crackling with intellectual energy, and at the very heart of our own time' Scotsman\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'In his hands, all modern life can be poetry' Herald\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46546958647532,"sku":"9781787334564","price":35.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9874683482824.jpg?v=1749858502"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/collections\/robert-crawford.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}