Word: qualities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Vivienne Haigh-Wood (Julie Covington) was a young woman of good mind and high spirits when Eliot married her. The poet may even have loved Viv. Surely he loved the England she embodied--sturdy, demanding, eccentric, eloquent, experimenting within a noble tradition--qualiti es that informed his art, if not his personality. As for Viv, she must have been beguiled by the oddity of their coupling, his Jeeves to her Zelda, and by the challenge of unearthing the soul of a poet beneath the manners of a mortician...
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