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 ...

How many shows has T.S. Eliot written? T.S. Eliot has written 8 shows including Murder in the Cathedral (Playwright), The Confidential Clerk (Playwright), Practical ...

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 ...

Has any other long-lived poet made his reputation on as few good poems as T.S. Eliot? Granted, he had to work in a bank to make ends meet and his wife was often sick and he was not well himself. But ...