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In 2020, 1,131 letters from T.S. Eliot were opened at Princeton University. They are the largest series of Eliot’s correspondence and among the best-known sealed literary archives in the world.
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APRIL IS POETRY MONTH.
In 1912, the poet T.S. Eliot met Emily Hale when they both performed in a dramatization of Jane Austen's novel "Emma". Their brief romance ended when Eliot moved to England to study. The two reconnected in 1930, beginning a twenty-seven-year correspondence, during which Eliot confessed his love for Hale.
Eliot destroyed Hale's letters, but Hale kept Eliot's, and donated them to Princeton University with a stipulation: they could not be read until 2020. That year, 1,131 letters were made available to public, leading to new insights about Eliot's poetry and biography, and Hale's own life.
For this event, Professors Joshua Kotin and Megan Quigley will discuss Eliot's letters to Hale what we can learn from them. They will show images of the letters from the archives at Princeton and present an overview of how the letters have sparked debates about Eliot's most famous poem, "The Waste Land", as well as his politics and behavior.
Presenters: Pr. Joshua Kotin is the author of "Utopias of One" (Princeton University Press, 2018), and director of the Shakespeare and Company Project. He is currently completing a book about Amiri Baraka. He teaches at Princeton University.
Pr. Megan Quigley is the author of "Modernist Fiction and Vagueness: Philosophy, Form, and Language" (Cambridge University Press, 2015) and co-editor of "Eliot Now" (Bloomsbury, 2024). She published essays on literary modernism, gender, and philosophy in the James Joyce Quarterly, Modernism/ modernity, and the LARB, among other venues. She teaches in English, Irish Studies, and Gender and Women’s Studies at Villanova University.
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EVENT TYPE: | Virtual | Lecture | Arts & Culture |
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