The Form of the Poet's Life

My review of Robert Crawford's Young Eliot appears in the new issue of The Weekly Standard (Click here, to read).

"The true form of a poet's life is defined by the poems themselves. Other biographers have sought to convey Eliot's spirit; Crawford is not always so successful at that, but he supersedes them simply by giving us the shape of the life as sound, as one lived for the sake of the work."