Faber & Faber: The Untold Story tells the history of the publisher in letters from Eliot, Joyce, Beckett, Plath, Larkin and many more. Here is a taste…
• Robert McCrum remembers his time as a Faber editor
Geoffrey Faber [company founder] to TS Eliot, 28 May 1925
I am very glad to have The Waste Land. You won’t think it unkind of me to say that I am excitedly groping in it. You are obscure, you know! With an obscurity compared to which Meredith at his most bewildering (and he can baffle, too) is the purest ray serene. I wonder if you realise how difficult you are? And alternatively I wonder if I am specially stupid.
TS Eliot [director at F&F] to WH Auden, 9 September 1927
I must apologise for having kept your poems such a long time, but I am very slow to make up my mind. I do not feel that any of the enclosed is quite right, but I should be very interested to follow your work. I am afraid that I am much too busy to give you any detailed criticism that would do the poems justice, and I suggest that whenever you happen to be in London you might let me know and I should be very glad if you cared to come to see me.
from The Guardian http://bit.ly/2UFTQFC
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