T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, to quote the description in Robert Crawford’s mesmerizing new book, was — and is — a poem of “ruin, brokenness, pain and wastage,” but these same words could easily ...

If fame is the name of your desire, writing about literature is among the least likely ways to find it. From the 17th century until today, only four literary critics, John Dryden (1631-1700), Samuel ...

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to scholar Frances Dickey of the University of Missouri about the trove of love letters T.S. Eliot wrote to a woman he called his "muse." The letters were unsealed this week.

“The question is not does love exist / But when she leaves, where she goes.” What’s that—something from Four Quartets? Actually it’s “Secrets,” by Van Halen. But how elegantly it expresses the problem ...

Historic Bellefontaine Cemetery holds over 87,000 bodies and counting, and is one of St. Louis’ most-populated cemeteries. It boasts most of the grand names in St. Louis history, names like Busch and ...

After more than 60 years spent sealed up in a library storage facility, about 1,000 letters written by poet TS Eliot to confidante Emily Hale will be unveiled this week, and scholars hope they will ...

Eliot had at least two sides: the conservative Christian and the writer of bawdy verses. While he opposed poorly written pornography, he clearly enjoyed clever, erotic works, where the emphasis was on ...

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 ...