Event 385

Robert Crawford with readings by Miranda Richardson

The London Library Lecture: TS Eliot, Poets and Libraries

 – Llwyfan Cymru - Wales Stage

Professor Robert Crawford’s biography Young Eliot traces the life of one of the C20th’s most important poets from his childhood in the ragtime city of St Louis up to the publication of his most famous poem The Waste Land. He discusses Eliot’s relationship with the London Library, as one of its former Presidents, and the relationship between poets and libraries in the wider context. The event opens with a reading of Eliot’s poems by actress Miranda Richardson.

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