T.S. Eliot defends himself from the grave after love letters are released
T.S. Eliot defends himself from the grave after love letters are released, insisting ‘I never at any time had sexual relations with Miss Hale*(i love you topic as you said but it is quite random hai ros)* Hale died in 1969, setting the stage for the release of the letters Thursday. But just as scholars began digging into them, the famed writer of “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” and “The Waste Land” had one last surprise — a letter from the grave to defend himself. “I might mention at this point that I never at any time had any sexual relations with Emily Hale,” Eliot said in a statement written in 1960 and released Thursday by the Houghton Library at Harvard University. But an Eliot scholar who has spent the past two days reading the letters told The Washington Post that from what she has read so far, that claim is “complicated.” “They probably didn’t have sex,” said Frances Dickey of the University of Missouri. “But I don’t believe that [their relationship] wasn’t sexu...
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