Margate Sands
Eliot spent October-November 1921 in a hotel near Margate, Kent, where he had gone to rest and recover following mental health issues. He wrote to a friend:
I have done a rough draft of part of part III...I have done this while sitting in a shelter on the front - as I am out all day except when taking rest.
Although the words here are spoken by a Thamesmaiden, they undoubtedly reflect the mental turmoil Eliot was suffering at the time:
On Margate Sands.
I can connect
Nothing with nothing
I have done a rough draft of part of part III...I have done this while sitting in a shelter on the front - as I am out all day except when taking rest.
Although the words here are spoken by a Thamesmaiden, they undoubtedly reflect the mental turmoil Eliot was suffering at the time:
On Margate Sands.
I can connect
Nothing with nothing
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| The Margate shelter where Eliot wrote |
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