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A story about TS Eliot’s life offers a convenient segue to write about a genre of literary biography that has long lurked in my mind asking for an essay: great women who write about great women, and why Lyndall Gordon is a master of the genre.
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‘The Hyacinth Girl: T.S. Eliot’s Hidden Muse’ by Lyndall Gordon pulls off a feat of multidimensional life-writing.
For 26 years, Eliot wrote intense, passionate letters to Emily Hale. Should they change the way we read his poetry?
Drawing on newly released letters from the poet to Emily Hale, with whom he maintained a decades-long, mostly epistolary affair, “The Hyacinth Girl,” by Lyndall Gordon, reconsiders his life and work.