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4 days ago · In 1921 overwork and worry about his wife's mental health caused him to take three months' leave from work, time he used to complete The Waste Land (1922). Although abstruse and technically innovative, it was at once acknowledged as a major work.
Eliot completed the poem in the course of a breakdown towards the end of 1921, while on leave for three months from the bank. The final section, ‘What the Thunder Said’, which poured out whole while Eliot was at the sanatorium of Dr Vittoz in Lausanne, returns to the scene of a lone journey.
Apr 26, 2020 · In a letter from Vivien to a friend on 13 th October 1921, she states that `Tom has had a rather serious breakdown and has had to stop all work and go away for three months.’ (`The Letters of T S Eliot, Volume One, 1898-1922,’ Edited Valerie Eliot, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York and London, 1988, 478). She goes on to refer in passing ...
Nov 9, 2018 · His neurologist — as they were then called in Britain — told Tom to get three months’ sick leave and then travel to Lausanne to see a leading psychiatrist. He did. His escape from London...
On October 12, 1921, Eliot was given three months of sick leave from Lloyds Bank because of his tenuous mental condition. First he moved to Margate, staying at the Albemarle Hotel in the coastal area of Cliftonville, where for three weeks he worked on The Waste Land— the working title was He Do the Police in Different Voices , a reference to ...
Eliot had been recommended rest following a diagnosis of some form of nervous disorder, and had been granted three months' leave from the bank where he was employed, so the trip was intended as a period of convalescence.
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Jul 4, 2020 · However, when Eliot applied to his employers, Lloyds Bank, for an extended vacation so that he might avail himself of such medical rest, the paperwork that his supervisors subsequently filed to justify his absence from work identified the reason for the three-month leave as a “nervous breakdown.”
