Emily Hale and T.S. Eliot pose in a 1946 family photo in Dorset, Vermont. After more than 60 years of sitting sealed up in a storage facility at Princeton University Library, ...

In 1956, 65-year-old Emily Hale donated more than 1,100 letters she had received from poet-playwright T.S. Eliot to Princeton University. She did so under the proviso that the letters — long ...

The unsealing of an archive containing TS Eliot’s letters to his American confidante, Emily Hale, was expected to reveal a tale of romance and longing.

While T.S. Eliot may have measured out his life with coffee spoons, researchers and fans of the poet are hoping to measure his legacy through a newly revealed collection of letters which has been ...

TS Eliot and Eliot’s poetry have unpacked, down the timeline, the anxiety and crisis of the post-war experience, the unapologetic sameness of a morbid existence, ...

Even now, if you were to ask readers to name the 20th century’s greatest poem, at least among those written in English, the answer would almost certainly be T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land ...

When, four years ago, TS Eliot topped a poll commissioned by the BBC to discover the nation’s favourite poet, the most common reaction was surprise. Poetic beauty contests of this kind tend to ...

Every year one of the first literary events is the T. S. Eliot Prize readings, ... The statue of the pioneer of palaeontology was crowdfunded by a campaign started by 13-year-old Evie Swire.

It’s now 75 years since the first ever performance of TS Eliot’s play The Cocktail Party. Eliot may be better-known for his poems than his scripts. The Cocktail Party, however, contains three ...

The Letters of TS Eliot: Volume Two: 1923-1925 Edited by Valerie Eliot and Hugh Haughton Faber £35, 912 pages FT Bookshop price: £28. The first volume of The Letters of TS Eliot appeared in 1988 ...