Nothing Too Private: The Letters of T.S. Eliot Volume 3: 1926–1927

With The Letters of T.S. Eliot Volume 3: 1926–1927, editors Valerie Eliot and John Haffenden continue the long-overdue project to publish the late poet’s correspondence. Volume 3 collects letters written in the middle of Eliot’s career as editor of The Criterion, at a time when the journal relaunched as The New Criterion and then shortly after experimented with a monthly format. While this correspondence brings new material to assess the functioning of The Criterion and the circulation of modernist periodicals, it also sheds new light on Eliot’s troubled marriage to Vivienne Haigh-Wood, a matter that the editors conspicuously frame through their selective inclusion of outside correspondence. The resulting narrative is at once problematic and dynamic, opening fertile ground for long-overdue biographical projects.