Lyndall Gordon’s 1999 biography — subsuming her separate books about his early and later life — lays to rest several popular misconceptions about Eliot, including his […] Skip to content ...

On December 4, 1950, two years after winning the Nobel Prize in Literature, T.S. Eliot stood behind a lectern in the Kaufmann Concert Hall at the 92nd Street Y and read some of his best work in ...

Crawford explores Eliot’s personal struggles and secret love affairsNewly revealed letters shed light on Eliot’s hidden ...

Eliot also ran early drafts past his wife, Vivienne—a risky move, given that the poem’s second section, “A Game of Chess,” drew upon and dramatized certain awful scenes from their marriage.

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 ...

T.S. Eliot’s poem “East Coker” has solid advice for managing money. By Ross Levin. For the Minnesota Star Tribune. July 27, 2024 at 12:03PM.

In this biography of T.S. Eliot, Robert Crawford includes the women closest to him: Charlotte Eliot, his mother who wrote poetry and sang “The Little Tailor” to him as a baby; Ada Eliot, his ...

C learly, T. S. Eliot is the most influential poet writing in English in our time. There is probably no living writer about whose work there has grown up such a body of critical commentary. So ...

In this fascinating work of nonfiction, we learn that Nobel laureate and “The Waste Land” author T.S. Eliot, who claimed that his poetry was “impersonal,” had a long-term secret love ...

When it comes to the world of modern poetry, T.S. Eliot is a name that resonates with both scholars and poetry enthusiasts alike. Born on September 26, 1888, he was a renowned American-British ...

So when, half a century after his death in 1965, we got both The Complete Prose of TS Eliot (2014–2019) and The Poems of TS Eliot (2015)—fully annotated by academics who had paid their photocopier ...