15. T.S. Eliot – jetzt auch aufm Klo**)

Nicholas Lezards Neubesichtigung von TS Eliots poetischem Werk anläßlich der ersten (!) Paperbackausgabe im Guardian, 2.10.

The usual gap between hardback and paperback publication of a book is roughly one year. In this instance, though, the pause has been extended to 35 years. One knows that, under the guardianship of Valerie Eliot, the poet’s Nachlass has been as ferociously protected from the vulgar public as, say, the Garden of Eden. Even the recipe for Coca-Cola is more accessible.

The Complete Poems and Plays of TS Eliot (Faber, £12.99)

(„Not that „Complete“ is accurate any more, anyway, as the publication of his earlier verse, The Inventions of the March Hare, extends the canon. This book is a straight reprinting from the 1969 edition…“!)

**) Pardon – der Rezensent sagt „in the bath“