<p><b>The second volume of Robert Crawford''s magisterial biography of the revolutionary modernist, visionary poet and troubled man, drawing on extensive new sources.</b><br><br>In this compelling and meticulous portrait of the twentieth century''s most important poet, Robert Crawford completes the story he began in <i>Young Eliot</i>. 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.<br><br>This long-awaited second volume, <i>Eliot After ''The Waste </i><i>Land''</i>, tells the story of the mature Eliot, his years as a world-renowned writer and intellectual, and his troubled interior life.<br><br>From his time as an exhausted bank employee after the publication of <i>The Waste Land</i>, through the emotional turmoil of the 1920s and 1930s, and his years as a f