Private Eye said of Stephen Spender that he wasn’t so much famous as that he knew a lot of famous people. They might have said the same of John Hayward. His editorial and scholarly work notwithstanding, it’s doubtful that a biography of him would have been written had it not been for his close friendship with the premier poet of the twentieth century, T.S. Eliot.
Il Miglior Fabbro II
Editing and living with T.S. Eliot
Steven Carroll
Published in November 2013, no. 356
Tarantula's Web: John Hayward, T.S. Eliot and their Circle
by John Smart
Michael Russell, £19.95 hb, 351 pp, 9780859553247
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Steven Carroll
Steven Carroll has spent time working as a teacher, musician, playwright, theatre critic, lecturer, and writer. He is the author of eight novels, including The Art of the Engine Driver and The Gift of Speed, which were both shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award; and The Time We Have Taken (2008), which won the Award in 2008.
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