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Part of the appeal of poetry as criticism, which I discussed in my last post, is the idea of a poem that can explain itself, with no intervention needed from...

For any writer, the life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge brings moments of painful recognition at every turn. Richard Holmes’s magisterial biography of Coleridge is replete with examples of the Romantic...

The Waste Land’s afterlife was a self-fulfilling prophecy strategically crafted by Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot, two writers who sought to meaningfully connect with what they thought of as the...

At the New York Times, Sarah Bahr shares news that the struggling Brontë Parsonage Museum has received a £20,00 gift from the T.S. Eliot Estate, to help it stay afloat during the coronavirus...

Beginning with the 1917 publication of Prufrock and Other Observations, Vijay Seshadri observes the ways that T. S. Eliot has remained prominent in our literary zeitgeist.

Cooley's 1998 novel, The Archivist, centered on Hale and Eliot's then-mysterious correspondence.

PBS NewsHour guides readers through the process undertaken by the Houghton Library and the Princeton University Library to unseal letters written by T.S. Eliot to his "muse," Emily Hale.

At The Guardian, Alex Clark contributes an article on the release of T.S. Eliot's letters to his "muse," Emily Hale.

Approximately 1,000 letters from T.S. Eliot to long-time friend and confident Emily Hale will be unveiled this week.