How TS Eliot found happiness
Withdrawn and prejudiced, the poet is hard to warm to – but Robert Crawford’s new biography shows how Eliot’s second marriage transformed his life.
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Erica Wagner
Erica Wagner is a New Statesman contributing writer.
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