T.S. Eliot said Emily Hale was the inspiration for the hyacinth girl in his reputation-making poem, “The Wasteland,” yet the apparent tribute to his loved one seems prophetic of his failure at ...

When Virginia Woolf called Thomas Stearns Eliot an “unhappy man wrapt up in fibres of self-torture, doubt, and conceit,” she may have suspected that he would ruin several women’s lives. Eliot After ...

With “Eliot After ‘The Waste Land,’ ” Robert Crawford completes his monumental life of T.S. Eliot. The first volume, “Young Eliot,” was published in 2015. All told, we now have more than 1,000 pages ...

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 ...

Young Eliot: From St. Louis to The Waste Land, by Robert Crawford. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 512 pages. $35. Eliot After The Waste Land, by Robert Crawford. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 624 pages. $40.

Of all the great modernists who wrote in English, not one of them — not even the James Joyce of Ulysses, the supreme masterpiece of the period — has been so thoroughly assimilated as TS Eliot, whose ...

In the Foreword to T.S. Matthews’s 1974 biography of T.S. Eliot, “Great Tom,” the author quotes Eliot’s 1956 declaration that he saw no reason why “biographies of poets should not be written. They are ...