Drawing on newly released letters from the poet to Emily Hale, with whom he maintained a decades-long, mostly epistolary affair, “The Hyacinth Girl,” by Lyndall Gordon, reconsiders his life and work.
The U.K. has been thrumming with public readings, festivals, concerts, conferences, TV specials and new books about the poet T.S. Eliot and his 100-year-old masterpiece, "The Waste Land," which is
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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.