You stand on the edge of a strip of asphalt, in the middle of a breezy, weedy, Southern forest. It's nearly sunset and the day's final rays sprawl over hay rolls and a small pond across the road.

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.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk might want to add "valor stealer" to his long list of accolades. For at least a year, the world's richest man has been repeatedly paraphrasing the great — albeit doomer-esque — ...

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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 ...

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 ...