Even after he published Prufrock and The Waste Land, T.S. Eliot continued to work his day job at a bank. The new volume of his letters reveals his financial anxieties and his unexpected attitude towards work and writing.
From 1917 until 1925, T.S. Eliot worked in a bank. A simple, declarative sentence, a biographical fact.
via A Peaceful, But Very Interesting Pursuit – The Rumpus.net.
A Nobel Prize winning poet continuing his day job (until he landed an editorial job) even after acclaim. Interesting issues to think through for many who are pursuing or have completed PhDs in biblical and ANE fields as the job market gets increasingly tight…