Erotic poems written for his wife are among previously unseen works by Nobel-winning poet to feature in definitive edition,out from Faber in NovemberThe 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 novel 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 catch 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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Source: theguardian.com