Volume 49, Number 9 · May 23, 2002
The Perils of Mrs. Eliot
By Robert Craft
Painted Shadow: The Life of Vivienne Eliot, First Wife of T.S. Eliot, and the Long-Suppressed Truth About Her Influence on His Genius
by Carole Seymour-Jones
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 698 pp., $35.00
'For my dearest Vivienne, this book, which no one else will quite understand.' Thus Eliot inscribed a copy of his Poems, 1909–1925. One of his biographers asserts that
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