Poetry and romance …

… ‘Eliot After “The Waste Land”’ Review: As Prufrock Grew Old. (Hat tip, Dave  Lull.)

After Vivien’s death, Eliot had written to Emily that he was shocked “to discover that I recoiled violently from the prospect of marriage.” Wrestling with the issue he declares: “I cannot, cannot, start life again, and adapt myself . . . to any other person. I do not think that I could survive it, as a person; I cannot bear the company of any one person for very long without extreme irritation and suppression.”