T·S·艾略特：不完美的人生（修订版） T.S. Eliot: An Imperfect Life

基本信息

Publisher：W. W. Norton &; Company

Publication date：January 27, 2026

Edition：Revised and updated

Language：English

Print length：688 pages

ISBN-10：1324123230

ISBN-13：978-1324123231

Item Weight：2.37 pounds

Dimensions：6.5 x 2 x 9.6 inches

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书籍简介

二十世纪伟大诗人的权威传记。

T·S·艾略特堪称二十世纪伟大的英语诗人。在《荒原》和《四个四重奏》等诗作中，他直面时代，其散文影响了整个文学批评流派。如今，随着人们翘首以盼的私人文件和信件的重见天日，重新审视和理解艾略特——作为诗人，也作为普通人——的动力油然而生。

《T·S·艾略特：不完美的一生》描绘了这位诗人兼普通人充满矛盾与痛苦的情感生活，打破了艾略特苦心营造的“非个人化诗歌”的神话。在新修订的两卷本传记《艾略特的早年生活》和《艾略特的新生活》中，知名艾略特研究学者林德尔·戈登探讨了艾略特作为圣人和罪人的双重身份。他曾构想过完美的人生，却因自身的虚伪、反犹主义和厌女症而饱受折磨，坦诚地承认自己无法实现这一目标。戈登利用艾略特写给弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫、埃兹拉·庞德以及他的缪斯和知己艾米莉·黑尔的信件，追溯了艾略特生活和创作中的种种磨难，并揭示了与他相识的女性对他的影响以及他诗歌情感源泉的重要新发现。

《不完美的人生》将艾略特人生中两个截然不同的面向——一个是幻灭的世故之人，一个是虔诚的诗人；一个是沉稳的英国公民，一个是受清教徒先辈影响的美国侨民——重新融合在一起，而仰慕者们长期以来将他视为分裂的人生轨迹。这部作品堪称当代最伟大的文学传记作家之一所著的，是对一位不朽诗人权威的传记。

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The definitive biography of the twentieth century’s great poet.

T. S. Eliot was arguably the greatest English-language poet of the twentieth century. In poems such as The Waste Land and Four Quartets, he spoke directly to his times, and his essays influenced a whole school of literary criticism. Today, as long-awaited personal papers and letters emerge, there is a new impetus to reexamine and understand Eliot―both as a poet and person.

T. S. Eliot: An Imperfect Life portrays the vexed, tormented emotional life of the poet and the man, dissolving the myth of impersonal poetry that Eliot worked so hard to create. In this latest revision of her two-volume biography, Eliot’s Early Years and Eliot’s New Life, renowned Eliot scholar Lyndall Gordon explores the divide between Eliot as a saint and sinner, a man who conceived of a perfect life but, roiled by his own duplicity, antisemitism, and misogyny, had the honesty to admit that he could not meet it. Making use of Eliot’s letters to Virginia Woolf, Ezra Pound, and his muse and confidante, Emily Hale, Gordon follows the trials of Eliot’s life and work, including vital new findings about the influence of the women who knew him and the emotional sources of his poems.

An Imperfect Life unites the two halves―one of a disillusioned sophisticate, the other of a religious poet; one of a carefully composed British citizen, the other of an American expatriate influenced by his Puritan forebears―of what admirers have long separated into a divided career. The result is the definitive story of an immortal poet, from one of today’s greatest literary biographers.

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作者简介

林德尔·戈登是牛津大学圣希尔达学院的高级研究员。她著有八部传记，包括《风信子少女：T·S·艾略特的隐秘缪斯》，撰写了“生平”部分。她现居英国牛津。

Lyndall Gordon is a senior research fellow at St. Hilda’s College, Oxford. An author of eight biographies, including The Hyacinth Girl: T.S. Eliot’s Hidden Muse，She lives in Oxford, England.