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092			_aELIOT, T. _bG663
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100	1		_aGordon, Lyndall, _eauthor. _950658
245	1	4	_aThe hyacinth girl : _bT. S. Eliot's hidden muse / _cLyndall Gordon.
246	3	0	_aT. S. Eliot's hidden muse
250			_aFirst American edition.
264		1	_aNew York, N.Y. : _bW. W. Norton & Company, Inc., _c2023.
264		4	_c©2023
300			_a496 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : _billustrations, portraits ; _c25 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
336			_astill image _bsti _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
500			_a"First published in the UK in 2022 by Virago Press."--Title page verso.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 400-467) and index.
520			_aWinner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, T.S. Eliot was considered the greatest English-language poet of his generation. His poems The Waste Land and Four Quartets are classics of the modernist canon, while his essays influenced a school of literary criticism. Raised in St. Louis, shaped by his youth in Boston, he reinvented himself as an Englishman after converting to the Anglican Church. Like the authoritative yet restrained voice in his prose, he was the epitome of reserve. But there was another side to Eliot, as acclaimed biographer Lyndall Gordon reveals in her new biography, The Hyacinth Girl. While married twice, Eliot had an almost lifelong love for Emily Hale, an American drama teacher to whom he wrote extensive, illuminating, deeply personal letters. She was the source of "memory and desire" in The Waste Land. She was his hidden muse. That correspondence--some 1,131 letters--released by Princeton University's Firestone Library only in 2020--shows us in exquisite detail the hidden Eliot. Gordon plumbs the archive to recast Hale's role as the first and foremost woman of the poet's life, tracing the ways in which their ardor and his idealization of her figured in his art. For Eliot's relationships, as Gordon explains, were inextricable from his poetry, and Emily Hale was not the sole woman who entered his work. Gordon sheds new light on Eliot's first marriage to the flamboyant Vivienne; re-creates his relationship with Mary Trevelyan, a wartime woman of action; and finally, explores his marriage to the young Valerie Fletcher, whose devotion to Eliot and whose physical ease transformed him into a man "made for love." This stunning portrait of Eliot will compel not only a reassessment of the man--judgmental, duplicitous, intensely conflicted, and indubitably brilliant--but of the role of the choice women in his life and his writings. And at the center was Emily Hale in a love drama that Eliot conceived and the inspiration for the poetry he wrote that would last beyond their time. She was his "Hyacinth Girl."-- _cFrom book jacket
600	1	0	_aEliot, T. S. _q(Thomas Stearns), _d1888-1965 _xRelations with women.
650		0	_aPoets, American _y20th century _vBiography. _939108
650		0	_aCritics _zGreat Britain _vBiography. _9348210
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