'It will be the special collections equivalent of a stampede at a rock concert.' US library to unveil poet T S Eliot's letters to confidante Emily Hale after decades
After more than 60 years spent sealed up in a library storage facility, about 1,000 letters written by poet T S Eliot to confidante Emily Hale will be unveiled this week and scholars hope they will reveal the extent of a relationship that's been speculated about for decades.
Eliot was already living in England and Hale taught drama at US universities, including Scripps College in California. Eliot was born in St Louis, Missouri, in 1888 and gained notoriety as a poet early in life. He was only 26 when "The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock' became his first professionally published poem.The first poem in the "Quartets" series, called "Burnt Norton," piques the interest of enthusiasts of the poet, says Eliot scholar Frances Dickey, because of lines that suggest missed opportunities and what might have been with his muse.
Dickey, who served as one of the editors on "The Complete Prose of T S Eliot", said the poet was deeply ashamed of his marriage to his first wife, Vivienne Haigh-Wood, whom he was with for more than 15 years. "He was really thinking more about the United States and his childhood during the period where he was in correspondence with Hale," says Dickey. "I have a feeling that having a relationship with an American woman helped him to uncover his past in a way."
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