New edition of TS Eliot poems challenge perceptions of his sexuality

The new edition, to be published by Faber Poetry in November, consists of erotic poems intended only for personal circulation

The sex life of TS Eliot has traditionally been seen through the prism of his unhappy first marriage and the dysfunctional portrayals of sexuality in his poetry, but a new edition of his work reveals the more assured side of the modernist master.

“I love a tall girl. When she sits on my knee/ She with nothing on, and I with nothing on/ I can just take her nipple in my lips/ And stroke it with my tongue,” he writes, in a poem titled How the Tall Girl and I Play Together.

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