(Editor’s note: This is the first of a three-part series. 2008 is the 120th anniversary year of poet T. S. Eliot’s birth.) The fog is in the fir trees. — T.S. Eliot, ‘The Dry Salvages (No. 3 of ‘Four ...

One hundred years ago this month, ”The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T.S. Eliot was first published in Poetry magazine. Ezra Pound heralded it as “the best poem I have yet seen from an American” ...

FILE - In this Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2004 file photo Valerie Elliot, the widow of the late British poet T.S. Eliot, with Mary de Rachewiltz,, daughter of late U.S. poet Ezra Pound, not in photo. after ...

“About my letters,” T.S. Eliot snarled at his mother, when she innocently offered, in early 1927, to return the trove she had received over the years. “For heaven’s sake don’t send them to me. If ...

Today would have been the 126th birthday of writer T.S. Eliot. While he was born in St. Louis, and emigrated to England in his 20s, the story of Eliot’s life cannot be told without at least a few ...

You don’t have to spend your whole life in New England to earn a spot on the roster of famous New England writers. Robert Frost was born in San Francisco. Boston native Edgar Allan Poe sneered at the ...

While T.S. Eliot may have measured out his life with coffee spoons, researchers and fans of the poet are hoping to measure his legacy through a newly revealed collection of letters which has been ...

In case there was any doubt, Valerie Eliot confirms that yes, it’s true; her late husband, T.S., considered cats to be, well, the cat’s meow. He liked dogs. He liked pigs. He even wrote light verse ...

So wrote legendary poet T.S. Eliot testily when he learned that Emily Hale, his longtime epistolary partner, rumored paramour and reputed muse was giving all the letters he had written to her to ...

Valerie Eliot died in her London home Friday at age 86 T.S. Eliot died in 1965 She was Eliot's second wife and guardian of his literary legacy LONDON (AP) — Valerie Eliot, the widow of T.S. Eliot and ...