“But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography.”

— John Updike

On T. S. Eliot (1984) by Peter Ackroyd, in which the Eliot estate forbade quotation from Eliot’s books and letters, The New Yorker (25 March 1985)

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