TS Eliot letter sheds light on early relationship

A newly published letter, written by TS Eliot in 1960, has shed fresh light on the writer's relationship with a woman he corresponded with for 26 years., Eliot said he had fallen in love with drama teacher Emily Hale in 1912 but had realised, 35 years later, he did not actually love her.The letters wereTheir unsealing prompted the publication of Eliot's letter, which he had said should only be released when his letters to Hale were made public.

Hale donated them in 1956 to the US university's library on condition they were not opened until 50 years after their deaths.The two had met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, when Eliot attended Harvard.The letters, which date from between 1930 and 1956, are expected to reveal intimate details about their relationship and his creative life.

"In retrospect, the nightmare agony of my 17 years with Vivienne seems to me preferable to the dull misery of the mediocre teacher of philosophy which would have been the alternative," he wrote. The poet and essayist, who was born Thomas Stearns Eliot in 1888, said the pair had never had sexual relations.

Source: Education Headlines (educationheadlines.net)

Poetry is very dull

Superb poet, horrible man. Ref Philip Larkin and Ted Hughes.

Was it with a cat? Cos that would explain a lot

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