The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 9

This volume covers the production of Eliot's play The Family Reunion ; the publication of The Idea of a Christian Society ; and the joyous versifying of Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats . After exhausting himself through nights of fire-watching in the London wartime blackout, he travels the country, attends meetings of The Moot, delivers talks, and advises a fresh generation of writers including Cyril Connolly, Keith Douglas, Kathleen Raine and Vernon Watkins. Major correspondents include W.