"In the years between his marriage in 1915 and the appearance of The Waste Land at the beginning of 1922, his poetry was slow in being published or recognized; his wife, as it proved before long, became a hopeless mental (and often physical) invalid; his earnings were insufficient; he himself was seriously overworked and approached physical and emotional collapse. Under these and perhaps other sources of strain he suffered increasingly from what toward the end of this period he described to Richard Aldington as “an aboulie and emotional derangement which has been a lifelong affliction.” The “aboulie” I take to be the French version of the psychiatrists’ aboulia (or abulia), a condition said to be marked by loss of “will power,” an abnormal inability to act."
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