Poetic Madness

The Washington Post | May 26, 2002| | Copyright

PAINTED SHADOW

By Carole Seymour-Jones

Doubleday. 698 pp. $35

This fascinating and controversial biography of T.S. Eliot's first wife, Vivienne, is the latest addition to the ever-lengthening list of feminist studies of the "wives of the poets" -- the women who lived in the shadows, and sometimes under the thumbs, of celebrated male writers. Wives of the poets have rarely been popular with the poets' friends, but Vivienne was particularly disliked by Eliot's literary circle, which blamed her neuroses, maladies, addictions and vulgarity for all of her husband's psychological and emotional ...

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