'Writing the Life of T.S. Eliot'
Described by Rowan Williams as ‘a major achievement’, Robert Crawford’s Young Eliot is one of the most highly praised biographies of 2015. Following the release date on March 31, Professor Crawford will talk about some of the challenges in writing about the man many see as the twentieth century’s greatest poet.
Born in Lanarkshire, Robert Crawford studied and taught at Glasgow and Oxford, moving to St Andrews in 1989. He has published six collections of poetry and over two dozen other books. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and of the British Academy, he has given readings and lectures at Berkeley, Oxford and Yale as well as in schools and village halls (smallest audience: four adults and a baby). An experienced broadcaster, he has been a judge of the National Poetry Competition, the T S Eliot Prize, and the David Cohen Prize.
Please join us for this wonderfully thought-provoking discussion with Robert Crawford, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and of the British Academy, and Professor in the School of English at the University of St Andrews.
Funds from this event will go to support the Lectureship in American Literature at the University of St Andrews, and are payable to the University of St Andrews American Foundation, 501(c)(3). All gifts are tax-deductible - please see the link below for more details