ABSTRACT
The author talks about aspects of T. S. Eliot's character and personality of which the public has been unaware, to enhance the reader's appreciation of Eliot's work as a whole, with fresh insights and personal testimony. The author and Eliot were friends for almost thirty-four years. What emerges from author's memories and the many letters which passed between them is a private Eliot, seen only by his closest family and a trusted few. In recording TSE's conversation, either from notes or from a fairly retentive memory, which has been further reinforced by constant recollection through the years, the author was astonished often how much of value and pungency he was able to crowd into the briefest space. The author explains his friendship with Eliot, and discusses extraordinary poetry and prose could have come out of Eliot.
