The Life
Lyndall Gordon, Eliot’s biographer and Senior Research Fellow at St Hilda’s College, Oxford, on the life of the poet.
A Life in Pictures
Eliot’s life in photographs, including previously unpublished images.
Preoccupations
A unique window onto Eliot’s concerns and enthusiasms, from America and Culture to Religion and Rhyme. The preoccupations of a lifetime, each presented in Eliot’s own words.
People in His Life
From family life to his work at Faber & Faber, a selection of those most important to Eliot.
The Work
The literary life of T. S. Eliot in all its variety: his poetry, his drama, his prose, his work as editor at The Criterion and as publisher at Faber & Faber.
Letters
Read the Eliot–Hale Letters, as well as those letters omitted from the ongoing Complete Letters of T. S. Eliot, annotated by Professor John Haffenden.
Letters
Those letters omitted from the Complete Letters.
The Eliot–Hale Letters
A digital edition of the complete surviving correspondence between T. S. Eliot and Emily Hale.
Vivien Eliot
Vivien with T. S. Eliot’s mother at Clarence Gate Gardens, taken during her visit in Summer 1921.

This section is dedicated to the surviving diaries and ledgers of Vivien Eliot, introduced, edited and annotated by Ann Pasternak Slater, with an accompanying selection of facsimiles.

Eliot at Faber
An insight into Eliot’s work at Faber & Faber, the London publisher. His involvement with writers such as Auden and works such as Finnegans Wake.
Prose
A selection of Eliot’s prose, on literature, religion and society, reproducing in full many of his best-known essays.
Preoccupations
A unique window onto Eliot’s concerns and enthusiasms, from America and Culture to Religion and Rhyme. The preoccupations of a lifetime, each presented in Eliot’s own words.
Gallery
A selection of images and photographs from the T. S. Eliot archive and other sources.
News
GENERAL NEWS
T. S. Eliot Prize News
T. S. Eliot at Faber event at London Review of Books
T. S. ELIOT PRIZE 2024 SHORTLIST READINGS: LISTEN AGAIN

Next month the London Review of Books will host an event to mark the 100th anniversary of T. S Eliot entering the world of publishing. On 23 April 1925, Eliot was officially invited by Geoffrey Faber to join the newly founded publishing house of Faber & Gwyer. It was to prove the most momentous appointment … Continued

We had a brilliant response to the T. S. Eliot Prize 2024 Shortlist Readings, held at the Royal Festival Hall, London, on 12 January 2025. Each of the ten shortlisted poets, including Karen McCarthy Woolf…

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T. S. Eliot Summer School 2025
‘A CUSTODIAN OF GRIEFS AND WONDERS’ – MICHAEL LONGLEY, 1939–2025

The T. S. Eliot International Summer School is convening at Merton College, Oxford from 5th to 13th July 2025. The Summer School  brings together renowned scholars and students from around the world for a nine-day, immersive exploration of the life and work of T. S. Eliot. During the week, students attend morning lectures followed by a seminar of … Continued

The T. S. Eliot Prize is deeply saddened to report the death of Michael Longley on 22 January 2025 at the age of 85. Michael Longley won the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2000 for…

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T. S. Eliot Society (UK) Annual Lecture 2024
PETER GIZZI WINS ELIOT PRIZE WITH COLLECTION OF ‘TRANSCENDENTAL BEAUTY’

Richard Harries is to give the T. S. Eliot Society’s Annual Lecture this year. The lecture, titled Eliot, Auden and the enjoyment of life, will be given at Newnham College, Cambridge on Thursday 24th October at 5:30pm, and will be followed by a drinks reception. Richard Harries is a writer, broadcaster and theologian. He is a … Continued

The T. S. Eliot Foundation is delighted to announce the winner of the T. S. Eliot Prize 2024 is Peter Gizzi for Fierce Elegy, published by Penguin Poetry. Chair Mimi Khalvati said: We are delighted…

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Discover The Criterion
Eliot’s literary review, which he edited from its inception in 1922 to its closure in 1939, introduced by Dr Jason Harding and accompanied here with facsimiles of the first and last issues.

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