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 ...

"Forgive my appealing to you. But I believe you are a person who takes such matters seriously, and I do want to put him in touch with the right people!" So wrote T.S. Eliot in 1941 to his friend ...

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 ...

Oh, the awkwardness of being known for something, then being asked to perform it on the spot. Groucho Marx is sitting at dinner in London in 1964 when his host, the poet and critic T.S. Eliot, asks ...

The Princeton University Library has made a collection of more than 1,000 letters written by poet T. S. Eliot to Emily Hale, a woman widely regarded as his “muse,” available to researchers for the ...

In college one night, I got very stoned and read T.S. Eliot’s “The Wasteland.” I was gripped by it, and felt I understood it — a feat I’ve never come close to accomplishing since. Yet I don’t think I ...

T. S. Eliot '10, Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry, will deliver the fifth lecture in the series on "The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism" tonight at 8 o'clock in the New Lecture Hall.

Biographer Lyndall Gordon has discovered that the poet T.S. Eliot was interested in the writings of mystics from his undergraduate days at Harvard. Brought up in a puritanical Unitarian household in ...

How many shows has T.S. Eliot written? T.S. Eliot has written 8 shows including Murder in the Cathedral (Playwright), The Confidential Clerk (Playwright), Practical ...

THE achievement of The Achievement (now as when the first edition appeared in 1935) is that Professor Matthiessen directs the reader firmly and intelligently to the only source for those who would ...