Publication of The Tree of Heaven and A Defence of Idealism
Poet involved
What happened
In 1917, May Sinclair published The Tree of Heaven and A Defence of Idealism: Some Questions and Conclusions. The chronology also records her review article on T. S. Eliot, “Prufrock: and Other Observations”. These works demonstrate the breadth of her literary and philosophical activity in London.
Literary impact
These publications brought together Sinclair’s imaginative and philosophical interests at a particularly important point in her career. A Defence of Idealism developed ideas that had concerned her since the 1890s, while The Tree of Heaven demonstrated how intellectual questions could be explored through fiction.
Source: Attached chronology
