Michelle Taylor writes about Emily Hale, who for many years was the muse of the poet T. S. Eliot and whose correspondence with Eliot, which Hale donated to Princeton University in 1956, became ...

The lithe muse rises from his crotch, right finger and delicate thumb poised where I watch her rise from his shaft's hidden head, her left foot rising from his thigh ...

From "World Poetry: An Anthology of Verse From Antiquity to our Time," edited by Katharine Washburn and John S. Major (W.W. Norton: 118 pp., $45) When in the night I await her coming, We’ll help ...

But Rilke was her biggest coup. She met the unknown German-speaking poet from Prague in 1897 when he was 21 and she, fifteen years his senior, already a well-known essayist and cultural personality.

Naturally, I needed to know who this poem was about. I asked my dad, and he told me about Maud Gonne, the muse who inspired all of Yeats’ poetry.

In “The Silenced Muse,” by Sara Fitzgerald, we get all of these and more.In this fascinating work of nonfiction, we learn that Nobel laureate and “The Waste Land” author T.S. Eliot, who ...