hyperbolicaholic t1_j6kv5v5 wrote
Take my English degree for asking this, but what’s the larger drama here about their relationship?
grubas t1_j6l299k wrote
> Eliot’s letters to Hale, who for nearly seventeen years was his confidante, his beloved, and his muse, were another matter. They don’t just repeat “gossip and scandal,” they produce it. Scholars have known about this correspondence since Hale donated Eliot’s letters to Princeton, in 1956, but for decades, the trove of documents remained a tantalizing secret—kept sealed, at Eliot’s insistence, until fifty years after both he and Hale had died.
https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-secret-history-of-t-s-eliots-muse
hyperbolicaholic t1_j6lmciq wrote
“his relationship with Hale was beyond confessional—she did not have the power to absolve him but to absorb him.”
This was a fascinating, really informative read. Thank you!
grubas t1_j6ls2nh wrote
Yeah I was going to go wiki but I saw a new Yorker non deadwall article and figured that would be slightly more fun.
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