Among the greatest of poets, TS Eliot protected his privacy while
publicly associated with three women: two wives and a church-going
companion. This presentation concealed a life-long love for an
American: Emily Hale, a drama teacher to whom he wrote (and later
suppressed) over a thousand letters. Hale was the source of "memory
and desire" in The Waste Land; she is the Hyacinth Girl. Drawing on
the dramatic new material of the only recently unsealed 1,131
letters Eliot wrote to Hale, leading biographer Lyndall Gordon
reveals a hidden Eliot. Emily Hale now becomes the first and
consistently important woman of life -- and his art. Gordon also
offers new insight into the other spirited women who shaped him:
Vivienne, the flamboyant wife with whom he shared a private
wasteland; Mary Trevelyan, his companion in prayer; and Valerie
Fletcher, the young disciple to whom he proposed when his
relationship with Emily foundered. Eliot kept his women apart as
each ignited his transformations as poet, expatriate, convert, and,
finally, in his latter years, a man `made for love.' Emily Hale was
at the centre of a love drama he conceived and the inspiration for
the lines he wrote to last beyond their time. To read Eliot's
twice-weekly letters to Emily during the thirties and forties is to
enter the heart of the poet's art.
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