T.S. Eliot wrote to Dorothy Pound in the early ’60s asking her to burn his letters to her husband, Ezra. She did. Eliot himself destroyed almost all of his correspondence with his parents after their ...

T.S. Eliot said Emily Hale was the inspiration for the hyacinth girl in his reputation-making poem, “The Wasteland,” yet the apparent tribute to his loved one seems prophetic of his failure at ...

"But oh -- Vivienne! Was there ever such torture since life began! -- To bear her on ones [sic] shoulders, biting, wriggling, raving, scratching, unwholesome, powdered, insane, yet sane to the point ...

When Virginia Woolf called Thomas Stearns Eliot an “unhappy man wrapt up in fibres of self-torture, doubt, and conceit,” she may have suspected that he would ruin several women’s lives. Eliot After ...

With “Eliot After ‘The Waste Land,’ ” Robert Crawford completes his monumental life of T.S. Eliot. The first volume, “Young Eliot,” was published in 2015. All told, we now have more than 1,000 pages ...

T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land,” to quote the description in Robert Crawford’s mesmerizing new book, was — and is — a poem of “ruin, brokenness, pain and wastage,” but these same words could easily ...

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For the immediate future, and perhaps for a long way ahead, the continuity of our culture may have to be maintained by a very small number of people. —T. S. Eliot, in The Criterion (1939) It is now ...

In the Foreword to T.S. Matthews’s 1974 biography of T.S. Eliot, “Great Tom,” the author quotes Eliot’s 1956 declaration that he saw no reason why “biographies of poets should not be written. They are ...

To be fair, it was Eliot who, three years earlier, had written to the then 71-year-old Groucho requesting a photograph of his favourite funnyman. A picture arrived — though not, alas, the kind that ...