Autograph Publishers Card
London: Faber and Faber Limited Publishers, August 14, 1963. 4.75" x 3.25" off-white post card with his publisher's name and address on the header. Verso is a typical postarcard format.
Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888 – 1965) was an American born and British domiciled poet, essayist and playwright. He relinquished his U.S. citizenship in favor of a British passport. As a leading figure in English-language Modernist poetry he wrote with a new art of language, style and structure. In April, 1925, Eliot joined the firm, renamed Faber & Gwyer, as a director, with the understanding that it would publish his magazine and his books. Eliot brought in his friends, too, including Ezra Pound and James Joyce. Afraid of prosecution for obscenity, Faber & Faber passed on “Ulysses,” but it published individual sections of Joyce’s “Work in Progress,” and then issued it in toto as “Finnegans Wake,” in 1939.
Eliot first attracted widespread attention for his poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" from 1914 to 1915, which, at the time of its publication, was considered outlandish. It was followed by "The Waste Land", "The Hollow Men", and "Ash Wednesday". He wrote seven plays, including "Murder in the Cathedral" and" The Cocktail Party". Eliot was awarded the 1948 Nobel Prize in Literature, "for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry" Fine. Item #3360
"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go." T. S. Eliot “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, Faber & Faber.
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