T. S. Eliot initially wanted Emily Hale to be remembered as the Beatrice to his Dante, the moral force behind his religious conversion, and the inspiration behind some of his most beautiful poems.
encountered them thousands of miles away, at the British Museum, in London, where he came face to face with a past self: his own letters to the Irish writer, lit up on a projection screen before him. Such exposure made Eliot uneasy.
In 1913, Thomas Stearns Eliot and Emily Hale performed in a theatrical adaptation of Jane Austen’s “Emma,” in a parlor room right off Harvard’s campus. Eliot was a Ph.D. student in philosophy: gawky and painfully shy. Hale, with her trained singer’s voice and cultivated grace, had an arresting presence. After more than a year of operagoing and ice skating, Eliot proclaimed his love to Hale, stopping just short of proposing marriage. Hale was caught off guard; she could not reciprocate.
I think that we all have these feelings but that most people are prudent about what they put into letters, for fear of being misunderstood. I am not afraid of being misunderstood by you, but I would rather be misunderstood than not say exactly what I feel at the moment of writing. But he was bound to his wife, too. Eliot and Hale’s impasse on the issue of divorce seems to have fatigued them. Their summer visits were filled with raptures, but overshadowed by bitter theological arguments and, eventually, by the looming spectre of a terrible war. At the end of August, in 1943, Eliot wrote to Emily that he wore his ring every day, removing it only to bathe: “the cold water makes my fingers shrink and I am afraid of the ring slipping off.
On January 22, 1947, Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot died, of heart failure, at Northumberland House, the mental hospital where she had been confined for almost a decade. She was fifty-eight years old. Later, Eliot’s friend and flatmate John Hayward reported that when the poet received the news, he cried out “Oh God! Oh God!” and buried his face in his hands.
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