News at Eleven: This belated second volume will blow away

some of the murk befouling the poet's reputation. The years 1923-25 were torture for [T.S.] Eliot. He was chronically hard up. His first wife Vivienne was an invalid, often mad with pain, and criminally mistreated by her expensive doctors. He held a senior position at Lloyds bank. When a patron, Lady Rothermere, helped him set up his own, "ultra-Tory" literary quarterly, The Criterion, Eliot drudged at the bank by day and slaved at the editorial task by night.

from Financial Times: The Letters of T.S. Eliot

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