The revealing of the hidden muse - Emily Hale - the Hyacinth Girl of the famous The Waste Land poem - who influenced the life and art of TS Eliot.

Among the greatest of poets, T.S. Eliot protected his privacy while publicly associated with three women: two wives, Vivienne and Valerie, and a church-going companion, Mary TrevelyanThis presentation concealed a life-long love for an American: Emily Hale, a drama teacher who was the source of ''memory and desire'' in The Waste Land; she is the Hyacinth Girl.

Drawing on the recently unsealed 1,131 letters Eliot wrote to Hale and suppressed in his lifetime, leading biographer Lyndall Gordon reveals both the hidden poet and the muse who was the first and consistently important woman of his life and artEmily Hale was at the centre of a love drama he conceived and the inspiration for the lines he wrote to last beyond their time.

''Extraordinary... a rare work'' COLM TOIBIN

''As exciting as a detective story'' MARGARET DRABBLE

''Will change the way Eliot is seen'' MIRANDA SEYMOUR



Format Häftad Omfång 512 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag Little, Brown Book Group Utgivningsdatum 2023-08-10 ISBN 9780349012094