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Posthumously unsealed trove of T.S. Eliot letters reveal ill-fated relationship with Emily Hale

In dueling narratives about their relationship, the pair talk about the comfort they found in one another during Eliot’s unhappy marriage to his first wife, Vivienne Haigh-Wood. However, they offer conflicting portrayals of their intimate friendship.

By Nicholas Pugliese/WHYY

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Notes scribbled in Free Library of Philadelphia’s copy of Shakespeare were written by ‘Paradise Lost’ poet John Milton

The Free Library is expecting a clamoring of academics requesting a private audience with the folio to study its annotations, but not before the public gets a chance to see it.

By Peter Crimmins/WHYY


A Table, A Typewriter, A Way of Life

By Joe Ulrich