Philip Hensher

Is T.S. Eliot’s great aura fading?

With new revelations about his anti-Semitism, his reputation looks seriously threatened

T.S. Eliot at his office at Faber and Faber c. 1959. [PHOTOGRAPH BY IDA KAR/ALAMY] 
issue 04 June 2022

  • Eliot: After The Waste Land

    Robert Crawford

    Jonathan Cape, pp. 480, £25

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