风信子女孩：T.S. 艾略特隐藏的缪斯女神 林德尔戈登 英文原版 The Hyacinth Girl: T.S. Eliot's Hidden Muse

基本信息

• 出版社 ? : ? W. W. Norton & Company (2023年 11月 21日)
• 语言 ? : ? 英语
• 平装 ? : ? 528页
• ISBN-10 ? : ? 1324066032
• ISBN-13 ? : ? 978-1324066033
• 商品重量 ? : ? 404 g
• 尺寸 ? : ? 13.97 x 2.54 x 21.08 cm

内容介绍

入围 2023 年笔会/杰奎琳-博格拉德-韦尔德传记奖候选名单

"*杰出、*精辟的艾略特新书"。科尔姆-托宾，《爱尔兰时报

T.S. 艾略特是诺贝尔文学奖得主，被认为是同时代*伟大的英语诗人。他的诗作《荒原》和《四个四重奏》是现代派的经典之作，

而他的散文则影响了一个文学批评流派。他在圣路易斯长大，在波士顿度过了他的青年时代，在皈依英国圣公会后，他重新塑造了自己的英国人形象。

就像他散文中权威而克制的声音一样，他是矜持的缩影。但艾略特也有另一面，著名传记作家林达尔-戈登（Lyndall Gordon）

在她的新传记《风信子女孩》（The Hyacinth Girl）中揭示了这一点。艾略特结过两次婚，但他对美国戏剧教师艾米莉-黑尔（Emily Hale）

的爱几乎是一生一世的。她是《荒原》中 "记忆与欲望 "的源泉。她是他隐藏的缪斯女神。

普林斯顿大学费尔斯通图书馆在 2020 年才公布了这些书信--约 1,131 封--向我们详细展示了隐藏的艾略特。

戈登从这些档案中重塑了海尔作为诗人生命中第一位也是*重要的女性的角色，追溯了他们之间的热情以及诗人对海尔的理想化在其艺术中的体现。

戈登解释说，艾略特的感情与他的诗歌密不可分，艾米莉-黑尔并不是他作品中唯一的女性。

戈登为艾略特与妩媚的薇薇安的第一次婚姻揭开了新的篇章；再现了他与战时女强人玛丽-特雷维扬的关系；

最后，探讨了他与年轻的瓦莱丽-弗莱切尔的婚姻，后者对艾略特的忠贞和身体上的轻松使他变成了一个 "为爱而生 "的男人。

这幅令人惊叹的艾略特肖像不仅将迫使人们重新评估这个男人--判断力强、两面三刀、矛盾重重、才华横溢，

而且还将迫使人们重新评估他所选择的女性在他的生活和写作中所扮演的角色。在艾略特构思的爱情剧中，

艾米莉-黑尔是中心人物，她是艾略特诗歌创作的灵感源泉，她的诗歌将超越他们的时代。她是他的 "风信子女孩"。

Longlisted for the 2023 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography

"The most brilliant and incisive new book on Eliot." ―Colm Tóibín, Irish Times

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, T.S. Eliot was considered the greatest English-language poet of his generation. His poems The Waste Land and Four Quartets are classics of the modernist canon, while his essays influenced a school of literary criticism. Raised in St. Louis, shaped by his youth in Boston, he reinvented himself as an Englishman after converting to the Anglican Church. Like the authoritative yet restrained voice in his prose, he was the epitome of reserve. But there was another side to Eliot, as acclaimed biographer Lyndall Gordon reveals in her new biography, The Hyacinth Girl. While married twice, Eliot had an almost lifelong love for Emily Hale, an American drama teacher to whom he wrote extensive, illuminating, deeply personal letters. She was the source of “memory and desire” in The Waste Land. She was his hidden muse.

That correspondence―some 1,131 letters―released by Princeton University’s Firestone Library only in 2020―shows us in exquisite detail the hidden Eliot. Gordon plumbs the archive to recast Hale’s role as the first and foremost woman of the poet’s life, tracing the ways in which their ardor and his idealization of her figured in his art. For Eliot’s relationships, as Gordon explains, were inextricable from his poetry, and Emily Hale was not the sole woman who entered his work. Gordon sheds new light on Eliot’s first marriage to the flamboyant Vivienne; re-creates his relationship with Mary Trevelyan, a wartime woman of action; and finally, explores his marriage to the young Valerie Fletcher, whose devotion to Eliot and whose physical ease transformed him into a man “made for love.” 

This stunning portrait of Eliot will compel not only a reassessment of the man―judgmental, duplicitous, intensely conflicted, and indubitably brilliant―but of the role of the choice women in his life and his writings. And at the center was Emily Hale in a love drama that Eliot conceived and the inspiration for the poetry he wrote that would last beyond their time. She was his “Hyacinth Girl."