For the first minisode of 2020, we’re wading into the gossipy world of TS Eliot’s love life: this year marks the publication of his romantic letters to Emily Hale, fifty years after their deaths. If you missed the story in the press, let’s just say it’s not one in which he covered himself in glory. Listen in for our thoughts on literary fetishism, posthumous publications, and how to choose a wife that won’t kill the poet in you, plus all the usual recommendations.
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