T. S. Eliot

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. Alfred Prufrock". James Burke Roche, later 3rd Baron Fermoy. This song borrows from and pays homage to the poem "The Love Song of J. Actor Oliver Platt is more closely related; both he and Diana, Princess of Wales are descendants of Frances Work, a late 19th-century American heiress who was briefly the wife of the Hon.

The band Crash Test Dummies released a song called "Afternoons and Coffee Spoons" from the album "God Shuffled His Feet" in the early 90's. It was much publicized that her ancestry included links to individuals such as Hollywood screen legend Humphrey Bogart (who was her 7th cousin), and poet Edmund Spenser, the author of The Faerie Queen [11]. Liverpool poet Adrian Henri included "Poem in Memoriam T.S.Eliot" in the best-selling 1968 anthology The Mersey Sound. Prior to her marriage, much research was done into Diana's lineage by genealogists. A favourite of present-day Christians is "Choruses from 'The Rock'," a poem decrying what Eliot saw as the decadence of Western thought from the sublime (the Word as the Revelation of God, wisdom, life) to the humdrum (information, living). These appointments ceased to be valid when Diana divorced the Prince of Wales in 1996. Lewis, in his conversion. The style "Princess Diana" was incorrect at all times of her life, though often used by the public and the media.

S. Buckingham Palace dismissed Costner's claims as unfounded. In the autobiographical A Severe Mercy, Sheldon Vanauken's admiration for Eliot's poetry lends credibility in Vanauken's eyes to Christianity and plays a part, along with letters from C. After her death, the actor Kevin Costner, who had been introduced to the Princess by her former sister-in-law, Sarah, Duchess of York claimed he had been in negotiations with the divorced Princess to co-star in a sequel to the thriller film The Bodyguard, which starred Costner and Whitney Houston. Appropriately, Eliot's poem "The Hollow Men" quotes Heart of Darkness in its epigraph — "Mistah Kurtz—he dead." The American photojournalist (Dennis Hopper) also references the end of "The Hollow Men" when speaking to Willard. Rowland about a fictionalised version of the twentieth century as it might be seen a thousand years from now. Alfred Prufrock," specifically the lines, "I should have been a pair of ragged claws/Scuttling across the floors of silent seas." Marlon Brando's character Kurtz later reads Eliot's poem "The Hollow Men": "We are the Hollow Men, We are the stuffed men...". Heliograph Incorporated produced a roleplaying game, Diana: Warrior Princess by Marcus L.

In the movie Apocalypse Now based on the Joseph Conrad novel Heart of Darkness, one of the side-characters, a photographer obsessed with the life of the elusive Colonel Kurtz, quoted "The Love Song of J. Amidst considerable (and predictable) outcry, the idea was quickly dropped. References have appeared in Hill Street Blues and The Long Goodbye by private-eye novelist Raymond Chandler. In 2003, Marvel Comics announced it was to publish a five-part series entitled Di Another Day (a reference to the James Bond film Die Another Day) featuring a resurrected Diana, Princess of Wales as a mutant with superpowers, as part of Peter Milligan's X-Statix title. Alfred Prufrock" is a greatly quoted and referenced piece. Diana was ranked third in the (2002) Great Britons poll sponsored by the BBC and voted for by the British public. "The Love Song of J. He stated that Diana "has in common with a minefield the following: relatively easy to lay but extremely difficult, expensive, and dangerous to get rid of." When there was a backlash concerning his quip he said he thought, "it was funny.".

(As a matter of fact, some critics have said that I have done so.) But there is one which deserves the success it has had, Henry Reed's Chard Whitlow.". In 1999, a little more than a year after her death, the journalist Christopher Hitchens made a vulgar, derogatory and controversial comment about her while on a cruise ship. In fact, one is apt to think one could parody oneself much better. A permanent memorial, the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fountain was opened in Hyde Park in London on 6 July 2004, but it has been plagued with problems and has been declared off-limits to the public at least twice for repairs. Eliot wrote, "Most parodies of one's own work strike one as very poor. The concrete wall at the edge of the tunnel is still used as an impromptu memorial for people to write their thoughts and feelings about Diana. In 1941 Henry Reed published Chard Whitlow, an intelligent and witty satire on Burnt Norton. The messages of condolence have since been removed, and its use as a Diana memorial has discontinued, though visitors visit and still leave messages at the site in her memory.

Bevis Hillier compared Cawein's lines "...come and go/Around its ancient portico" with Eliot's "...come and go/talking of Michelangelo." Cawein's "Waste Land" had appeared in the January 1913 issue of Chicago magazine Poetry (which also contained an article by Ezra Pound on London poets). As a temporary memorial, the public co-opted the Flamme de Liberté (Flame of Liberty), a monument near the Alma Tunnel, and related to the French donation of the Statue of Liberty to the United States. Canadian academic Robert Ian Scott has pointed out that the title of The Waste Land and some of the images had previously appeared in the the work of a minor Kentucky poet, Madison Cawein (1865-1914). Some even suggested making Diana a saint, stirring much controversy. It has, on the other hand, been condemned as showing a lack of originality. Numerous manufacturers of collectibles continue to produce Diana merchandise. This practice has been defended as a necessary salvaging of tradition in an age of fragmentation, and hence completely integral to the theme of the work, as well as adding richness through unexpected juxtaposition. In the years after her death, interest in the life of Diana has remained high, especially in the United States of America.

There are no such acknowledgements after the "Four Quartets". Researchers suggest that this was caused by the "identification" effect, as the greatest increase in suicides was by people most similar to Diana: women aged 25 to 44, whose suicide rate increased by over 45% [10]. "Notes on the Waste Land", which follows after the poem, gives the source of many of these, but not all. During the four weeks following her funeral, the overall suicide rate in England and Wales rose by 17%, compared with the average reported for that period in the four previous years. A more insistent criticism has been of his widespread interweaving of quotes from other authors into his work. A visitors' centre allows visitors to see an exhibition about her and walk around the lake [9]. However, like Modern Art, that battle has long been won. Diana, Princess of Wales is buried at Althorp in Northamptonshire on an island in the middle of a lake called the Round Oval.

Eliot's poetry was first criticised as not being poetry at all. Tradition was defied when the guests applauded the speech by Diana's brother, Lord Spencer, who bitterly attacked the press and indirectly criticised the Royal Family for their treatment of her, although Lord Spencer himself had years earlier refused Diana permission to use a cottage at Althorp as a sanctuary due to his fears about press intrusion into his family home. A particularly strong influence on Eliot's work was French poetry, in particular Charles Baudelaire, whose clear-cut images of Paris city life provided a model for Eliot's own images of London. The service was televised live throughout the world, and loudspeakers were placed outside so the crowds could hear the proceedings. After his death, this work became the basis of the hit West End and Broadway musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber, Cats. Outside Westminster Abbey crowds cheered the dozens of celebrities who filed inside, including singer Sir Elton John (who performed a re-written version of his song Candle in the Wind). In 1939, he published a book of poetry for children, Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats – "Old Possum" being a name Pound had bestowed upon him. Mourners cast flowers at the funeral procession for almost the entire length of its journey.

He was appointed to the committee formed to produce the "New English" translation of the Bible. At the urging of Downing Street, what was to be a recorded piece became a live broadcast, and the script was revised by Alastair Campbell to be more "human". part II of "The Waste Land" in the section beginning "My nerves are bad tonight."). The Queen, who returned to London from Balmoral, agreed to a television broadcast to the nation. There is, however, evidence throughout his work of contrary practice (e.g. "Where is our Queen? Where is our Flag?" asked The Sun. Eliot is also known for his critical and theoretical writing, particularly for his advocacy of the "objective correlative", the notion that art should not be a personal expression, but should work through objective universal symbols. The Royal Family's rigid adherence to protocol was intepreted by the public as a lack of compassion: the refusal of Buckingham Palace to fly the Union Flag at half mast provoked angry headlines in newspapers.

Eliot confessed to being influenced by, among others, the works of 17th century preacher, Lancelot Andrewes. The reaction of the Royal Family to the death of Diana caused unprecedented resentment and outcry. Murder in the Cathedral is about the death of Thomas a Becket. More than one million bouquets were left at her London home, Kensington Palace, while at her family's estate of Althorp the public was asked to stop bringing flowers, as the volume of people and flowers in the surrounding roads was causing a threat to public safety. Eliot's plays, mostly in verse, include "Sweeney Agonistes" (1925), Murder in the Cathedral (1935), The Family Reunion (1939), The Cocktail Party (1950), The Confidential Clerk (1953) and The Elder Statesman (1958). People in India watched the funeral, even as mourning started to sweep over their country following the passing of Mother Teresa the day before. From this backgrouind, the Quartets end with the triumphant affirmation of Mother Julian of Norwich "all shall be well and/All manner of things shall be well". Diana's death was greeted with extraordinary public grief, and her funeral at Westminster Abbey on 6 September drew an estimated 3 million [8] mourners in London, as well as worldwide television coverage.

The beginning of the Quartets ("Houses.../Are removed, destroyed") had become a violent everday experience; this creates an animation, where for the first time he talks of Love - as the driving force behind all experience. Also, the underpass at the Place de l'Alma is known as an accident black spot; it is on a stretch of high-speed road but only has limited visibility ahead in places; and there are square-shaped pillars in the central reservation which could lead to collisions. Eliot's own experiences as an air raid warden in the Blitz, empower the poem, and he imagines meeting Dante during the German bombing. Rees-Jones, the only survivor, had his seat belt on. "Little Gidding" (the element of fire) stands out as the tour de force and most anthologised of the individual Quartets. Rumours and conspiracies theories aside, it is clear that Diana, Dodi and Paul were not wearing seat belts when the car crashed. It again strives to contain opposites ("...the past and future/Are conquered, and reconciled"). The release of these pictures caused uproar in the UK, where it was widely felt that the privacy of the Princess was being infringed, and spurred another lawsuit by Mohammed Al-Fayed.

Its sections are less distinctive and its lines less memorable than the other Quartets. Later in 2004, US TV network CBS showed pictures of the crash scene showing an intact rear side and an intact centre section of the Mercedes, including one of a unbloodied Diana with no outward injuries, crouched on the rear floor of the vehicle with her back to the right passenger seat — the right rear car door is completely opened. "The Dry Salvages" treats the element of water, via images of river and sea. John Burton, said (in an interview with The Times) that he attended a post-mortem examination of the Princess's body at Fulham mortuary, where he personally examined her womb and found her not to be pregnant. Out of darkness Eliot continues to reassert a solution ("I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope"). In January 2004, the former coroner of The Queen's Household, Dr. There is a sense of bitterness and loss, where the world is compared in a Shakespearian fashion to a stage. Other motivations which have been advanced for murder include suggestions Diana intended to convert to Islam, and that she was pregnant with Dodi's child.

"East Coker" continues the examination of time and meaning, focusing in a famous passage on the nature of language and poetry. This was apparently based on the grounds that the Duke abhorred the idea of his grandsons potentially having Muslim or half-Arab siblings. We see the shell of an abandoned house, and Eliot toys with the idea that all these "merely possible" realities are present together, but invisible to us: All the possible ways people might walk across a courtyard add up to a vast dance we can't see; children who aren't there are hiding in the bushes. Fayed, for his part, stands by his belief that the Princess and his son were killed in an elaborate conspiracy launched by the SIS (MI6) on the orders of the "racist" Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. "Burnt Norton" asks what it means to consider things that aren't the case but might have been. In the Scottish courts, Mohamed Al-Fayed applied for an order directing there be a public inquiry and is to appeal against the denial of his application. A reflective early reading suggests an inexact systematicity among them; they approach the same ideas in varying but overlapping ways, although they do not necessarily exhaust their questions. The families of Dodi Fayed and Henri Paul have not accepted the French investigators' findings.

Also, each is associated with one of the four classical elements: air, earth, water, and fire. No official DNA test has been carried out on the samples, and Henri Paul's family has not been allowed to commission independent tests on them. Although they resist easy characterisation, they have many things in common: each begins with a rumination on the geographical location of its title, and each meditates on the nature of time in some important respect—theological, historical, physical, and on its relation to the human condition. Some maintain this strongly indicates the samples were tampered with. It consists of four long poems,initially published separately: "Burnt Norton" (1936), "East Coker" (1940), "The Dry Salvages" (1941) and "Little Gidding" (1942), each in five sections. The samples were also said to contain a level of carbon monoxide sufficiently high as to have prevented him from driving a car (or even from standing). Eliot considered Four Quartets his masterpiece, as it draws upon his knowledge of mysticism and philosophy. [7].

In 1928, Eliot summarised his beliefs well when he wrote in the preface to his book For Lancelot Andrewes that "The general point of view [of the book's essays] may be described as classicist in literature, royalist in politics, and anglo-catholic [sic] in religion." This period includes such works as Ash Wednesday, The Journey of the Magi, and Four Quartets. This initial analysis was challenged by a British pathologist hired by the Fayeds; in response, French authorities carried out a third test, this time using the medically more conclusive fluid from the sclera (white of the eye), which confirmed the level of alcohol measured by blood and also showed Paul had been taking antidepressants. Eliot's work, following his religious conversion, is sometimes religious in nature, but it also attempts to preserve historical English values that Eliot thought important. The French investigators' conclusion that Henri Paul was drunk was made largely on the basis of an analysis of blood samples, which were stated to contain an alcohol level that (according to Jay's September 1997 report) was three times the legal limit. Eliot thanked Pound for "helping one to do it in one's own way.". Although the official investigation found Diana had died as a result of an accident, there are a significant number of conspiracy theories that she was assassinated. Pound advised against Eliot's thought of scrapping it altogether. On 6 January 2004, an inquest into the death of Diana opened in London held by Michael Burgess, the coroner of The Queen's Household.

Part IV "Death by Water" was reduced to its current ten lines from an original ninety-two. In November 2003, Christian Martinez and Fabrice Chassery, the photographers who took photos of the casualties after the crash, and Jacques Langevin, who took photos as the couple left the Ritz Hotel, were cleared of breaching French privacy laws [6]. The publication of the draft manuscript of the poem in 1972 showed the strong influence of Ezra Pound upon its final form, prior to which Part I had been titled "He Do the Police in Different Voices". The investigators concluded that the crash was an accident brought on by an intoxicated driver attempting to elude pursuing paparazzi at high speed. On one occasion Auden read out loud the whole of The Waste Land to a social gathering. The driver of that vehicle has never come forward, and the vehicle itself has not been found. Eliot's work was hailed by the W.H.Auden generation of 1930s poets. In 1999 a French investigation concluded the Mercedes had come into contact with another vehicle (a white Fiat Uno) in the tunnel.

Among its famous phrases are "April is the cruellest month"; "I will show you fear in a handful of dust"; and "Shantih shantih shantih.". The car was certainly travelling much faster than the legal speed limit of 50 km/h (30 mph), and faster than was prudent for the Alma underpass. Despite the alleged obscurity of the poem—its slippage between satire and prophecy; its abrupt changes of speaker, location, and time; its elegiac but intimidating summoning up of a vast and dissonant range of cultures and literatures—, it has become a familiar touchstone of modern literature. It was later announced the car's actual speed on collision was about 95-110 km/h (60-70 mph), and that the speedometer had no needle as it was digital. Even before The Waste Land had been published as a book (December 1922), Eliot had distanced himself from the poem's vision of despair; "As for The Waste Land, that is a thing of the past so far as I am concerned and I am now feeling toward a new form and style" he wrote to Richard Aldington on November 15, 1922. Initial media reports stated Diana's car had collided with the pillar at over 190 km/h (120 mph), and that the speedometer's needle had jammed at that position. Composed during a period of personal difficulty for Eliot—his marriage was foundering, and both he and Vivienne suffered from precarious health—The Waste Land became one of the principal examples of a new trend in English poetry and came to represent the disillusionment of the post-World War I generation. .....

In October 1922, Eliot published the long poem The Waste Land in The Criterion. They left with her body 90 minutes later. Its now-famous opening lines with a comparison of the evening sky to "a patient etherised upon a table" were particularly shocking and offensive at a time when the poetry of the Georgians was hailed for its weak derivations of the nineteenth century Romantic Poets. the Prince of Wales and Diana's two sisters, Lady Sarah McCorquodale and Lady Jane Fellowes, arrived in Paris to collect Diana's body. They certainly have no relation to 'poetry'...". At around 2.00 p.m. Eliot is surely of the very smallest importance to anyone - even to himself. After their visits, the Anglican Archdeacon of France, Father Martin Draper, said commendatory prayers from the Book of Common Prayer.

Its mainstream reception can be gauged from a review by F.Dalton in The Times Literary Supplement, 31 June 1917: "The fact that these things occurred to the mind of Mr. Later that morning, Chevenement, the French Prime Minister, Lionel Jospin, the wife of the French President, Jacques Chirac, and the French Health Minister, Bernard Kouchner, visited the hospital room where Diana's body lay and paid their last respects. Although Prufrock is of decided late middle-age, Eliot wrote most of the poem when he was only 22. At 5.30, her death was announced at a press conference held by a hospital doctor, Jean-Pierre Chevènement (France's Interior Minister) and Sir Michael Jay (Britain's ambassador to France). Alfred Prufrock". Two hours later, at 4.00 that morning, the doctors pronounced her dead. In 1915, Ezra Pound, then the overseas editor of Poetry magazine, recommended to Harriet Monroe, the magazine's founder, that she publish "The Love Song of J. Despite attempts to save her, her internal injuries were too extensive.

Gurdjieff. [5]. I. Diana was freed, alive, from the wreckage, and after some delay due to attempts to stabilize her at the scene, she was taken by ambulance to Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, arriving there shortly after 2.00 a.m. He dabbled in the study of Sanskrit and eastern religions and was a student of G. Trevor Rees-Jones was severely injured, but later recovered. After the war, in the 1920s, he would spend time with other great artists in the Montparnasse Quarter in Paris where he was photographed by Man Ray. Dodi Fayed and Henri Paul were both declared dead at the scene of the crash.

Eliot made his life and literary career in Britain. As the casualties lay seriously injured in their wrecked car, the photographers continued to take pictures. A portrait of the comedian, which Eliot requested of Marx, was proudly displayed in Eliot's home next to pictures of Yeats and Valery. It swerved to the left of the two-lane carriageway and collided head-on with the thirteenth pillar supporting the roof, then spun to a stop. Late in his life, Eliot exchanged numerous letters with comedian Groucho Marx. At the entrance to the tunnel, their car struck a glancing blow to the right-hand wall. This commemoration contains his name, an indication that he had received the Order of Merit, dates, and a quote from Little Gidding: "the communication / Of the dead is tongued with fire beyond / the language of the living.". Shortly after midnight on 31 August, their Mercedes-Benz S 280 entered the underpass below the Place de l'Alma, pursued in various vehicles by nine French photographers and a motorcycle courier.

On the second anniversary of his death a large stone placed on the floor of Poets' Corner in London's Westminster Abbey was dedicated to Eliot. Late in the evening of Saturday 30 August, Diana and Fayed departed the Hôtel Ritz in Place Vendome, Paris, and drove along the north bank of the Seine. There, a simple plaque commemorates him. On 31 August 1997 Diana was involved in a car accident in the Pont de l'Alma road tunnel in Paris, along with her romantic companion Dodi Fayed, their driver Henri Paul, and Fayed's bodyguard Trevor Rees-Jones. After his death, his body was cremated and, according to Eliot's wishes, the ashes taken to St Michael's Church in East Coker, the village from which Eliot's ancestors emigrated to America. [4]. For many years he had health problems due to his heavy smoking, often being laid low with bronchitis or tachycardia. Carol Bellamy, Executive Director of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), said that landmines remained "a deadly attraction for children, whose innate curiosity and need for play often lure them directly into harm's way".

Eliot died of emphysema in London on January 4, 1965. The United Nations appealed to the nations which produced and stockpiled the largest numbers of landmines (China, India, North Korea, Pakistan, Russia and the United States) to sign the Ottawa Treaty forbidding their production and use, for which Diana had campaigned. Eliot and a facsimile of the draft of The Waste Land. As of January 2005, Diana's legacy on landmines remained unfulfilled. Valerie was 38 years younger than her husband and the years of her widowhood have been spent preserving his legacy; she has edited and annotated The Letters of T.S. Introducing the Second Reading of the Landmines Bill 1998 to the British House of Commons, the Foreign Secretary, Robin Cook, paid tribute to Diana's work on landmines:. and with not many more other than his wife's parents attending. She is widely acclaimed[2] for her influence on the signing by the governments of the UK and other nations of the Ottawa Treaty in December 1997, after her death, which created an international ban on the use of anti-personnel landmines.

I mean female society." Less than four months later he was introduced to Vivienne Haigh-Wood, a Cambridge governess, by mutual friends in Oxford. Charles resumed his relationship with Camilla Parker Bowles, whilst Diana became involved with James Hewitt and possibly later with James Gilbey, with whom she was involved in the so-called Squidgygate affair. In a letter to Conrad Aiken late in December 1914, Eliot complained that he was still a virgin, adding "I am very dependent upon women. Both the Prince and Princess of Wales spoke to the press through friends, accusing each other of blame for the marriage's demise. Lanman, Josiah Royce, Bertrand Russell, and Harold Joachim. In the mid 1980s her marriage fell apart, an event at first suppressed, but then sensationalised, by the world media. Bradley.) During Eliot's university career, he studied with George Santayana, Irving Babbitt, Henri Bergson, C.R. It has also been suggested that she suffered from borderline personality disorder.

H. In the same interview in which she told of the suicide attempt while pregnant with Prince William, she said her husband had accused her of crying wolf when she threatened to kill herself. (In 1964, the dissertation was published as Knowledge and Experience in the Philosophy of F. It has been suggested she did not, in fact, intend to end her life (or that the suicide attempts never even took place) and that she was merely making a 'cry for help'. Because he did not appear in person to defend the thesis, however, he was not awarded his Ph.D. In one interview, released after her death, she claimed that, while pregnant with Prince William, she threw herself down a set of stairs and was discovered by her mother-in-law. He continued to work on his dissertation and, in the spring of 1916, sent it to Harvard, which accepted it. She had previously suffered from bulimia nervosa, which recurred, and she made a number of suicide attempts.

Louis, Missouri. During her lifetime, she was often referred to as the most photographed person in the world. Eliot was born into a prominent family from St. From the time of her engagement to the Prince of Wales in 1981 until her death in a car accident in 1997, Diana was arguably the most famous woman in the world, the pre-eminent female celebrity of her generation: a fashion icon, an ideal of feminine beauty, admired and emulated for her high-profile involvement in AIDS issues and the international campaign against landmines. . Her bitter accusations of adultery, mental cruelty and emotional distress visited upon her by her husband riveted the world for much of the 1990s, spawning biographies, magazine articles and television movies. Alfred Prufrock, The Waste Land and Four Quartets, are considered major achievements of twentieth-century Modernism. Though she was noted for her pioneering charity work, the Princess's philanthropic endeavours were overshadowed by a scandal-plagued marriage.

Thomas Stearns Eliot (September 26, 1888 – January 4, 1965) was an Anglo-American poet, dramatist, and literary critic, whose works like The Love Song of J. She was generally called Princess Diana by the media despite having no right to that particular honorific, as it is reserved for a princess by birthright rather than marriage. Eliot by Robert Crawford (1987). From her marriage in 1981 to her divorce in 1996 she was styled Her Royal Highness The Princess of Wales. The Savage and the City in the Work of T.S. Diana, Princess of Wales (Diana Frances Mountbatten-Windsor, née Spencer) (1 July 1961–31 August 1997) was the first wife of HRH The Prince Charles, Prince of Wales. Eliot: A Study in Character and Style by Ronald Bush (1984). The Light Dragoons, Colonel-in-chief.

T.S. The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment (Queen's and Royal Hampshires), Allied Colonel-in-chief with Margrethe II of Denmark. The Composition of Four Quartets by Helen Gardner (1978). The 13/18th Royal Hussars, Colonel-in-chief (until 1992). Eliot by Helen Gardner (1949). Royal Australian Survey Corps, Colonel-in-chief. The Art of T.S. The Princess of Wales's Own Regiment, Colonel-in-chief.

Eliot's Dark Angel: Intersections of Life and Art by Ronald Schuchard (1999). The Royal Hampshire Regiment, Colonel-in-chief (until 1992). Eliot and Prejudice by Christopher Ricks (1988). Diana, Princess of Wales (28 August 1996–death). T.S. Her Royal Highness The Princess of Wales (29 July 1981–28 August 1996). Eliot: The Story of a Friendship: 1947-1965 by William Turner Levy and Victor Scherle (1968). The Lady Diana Spencer (9 June 1975–29 July 1981).

Affectionately, T.S. The Honourable Diana Spencer (birth–9 June 1975). Eliot by Stephen Spender (1975). T.S. Eliot: A Memoir by Robert Sencourt (1971).

T.S. Matthews (1973). Eliot by T.S. Great Tom: Notes Towards the Definition of T.S.

Painted Shadow: A Life of Vivienne Eliot by Carole Seymour-Jones (2001). Eliot: An Imperfect Life by Lyndall Gordon (1998). T.S. Eliot: A Life by Peter Ackroyd (1984).

T.S. On Poetry and Poets (1957). The Three Voices of Poetry (1954). Poetry and Drama (1951).