Word: wifely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Like many of Eliot's critics, Ozick says she is repelled by the poet's alleged anti-Semitism and his cruelty towards his wife. She takes particular offense at Eliot's book called The Idea of a Christian Society, in which he says that cultural unity can be achieved through a "Community of Christians...
...also offended by the poet's insensitive wartime writings and the fact that Eliot filed for divorce from his emotionally crippled wife while in the United States, an ocean away from the woman to whom he had been married for 17 years...
...poet's alleged cruelty toward his wife, Hall, the poetry editor of Harvard Magazine, prefers to use the word "cowardly" when referring to Eliot's method of ending their marriage...
Eileen Simpson, Berryman's wife, agrees that the older generation of literary artists used their writing to help them survive their many difficult experiences. In her book, Poets in Their Youth, she writes that for her husband, "the only thing was to write poetry. All else was wasted time...
...author's nearly endless chronicle has always been his seething contempt, and Samson's, for England's upper-class bumblers, and for Oxbridge leftists of the Kim Philby stamp. Readers who have followed Samson from Berlin Game will recall that his very upper-class wife Fiona, also an English intelligence agent, defected to East Germany and set up shop as a KGB colonel, no less...