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The relationships between T.S. Eliot and the following people are described at webpages at this website. Select the name of the person to visit the webpage.
Jean VerdenalEliot and Verdenal became friends during Eliot's study at the Sorbonne in 1910-11. Verdenal died early in World War I. Eliot's first volume of poetry, Prufrock and other Observations was dedicated to Verdenal. Additionally, a number of critics see The Waste Land as Eliot's elergy to his friend. |
More on Jean VerdenalAn online edition of "Jean Verdenal: T.S. Eliot's French Friend" by Claudio Perinot who interviewed Jean Verdenal's nephew to discover more about Verdenal. |
Jean Verdenal, mort aux DardanellesA scrapbook of sorts. This page contains pictures of Verdenal, extracts from some letters he wrote to T.S. Eliot and copies of articles in periodicals in which he was mentioned (in French and English translations). |
Hermann HesseEliot took a liking to Hesse's book of essays Blick ins Chaos and was intstrumental in getting the essays translated into English in The Dial and his own magazine, The Criterion. Additionally, one of Eliot's notes to The Waste Land cites the book and quotes from it. |