The second volume of Robert Crawfords magisterial biography of the revolutionary modernist visionary poet and troubled man drawing on extensive new sources.In this compelling and meticulous portrait of the twentieth centurys most important poet Robert Crawford completes the story he began in Young Eliot. Drawing on extensive new sources and letters this is the first fullscale biography to make use of Eliots most significant surviving correspondence including the archive of letters unsealed for the first time in 2020 detailing his decadeslong love affair with Emily Hale.This longawaited second volume Eliot After The Waste Land tells the story of the mature Eliot his years as a worldrenowned writer and intellectual and his troubled interior life.From his time as an exhausted bank employee after the publication of The Waste Land through the emotional turmoil of the 1920s and 1930s and his years as a firewatcher in bombed wartime London Crawford reveals the public and personal experiences that helped generate some of Eliots masterpieces.He explores the poets religious conversion his editorship at Faber and Faber his separation from Vivien HaighWood and happy second marriage to Valerie Fletcher and his great work Four Quartets.Robert Crawford presents this complex and remarkable man not as a literary monument but as a human being as a husband lover and widower as a banker editor playwright and publisher but most of all as an epochshaping poet struggling to make art among personal disasters.