TS Eliot – the puzzles of a troubled life

TS Eliot, renowned as the greatest 20th Century poet has imbedded lines from his masterpieces, The Waste Land and Four Quartets into common consciousness.“Humankind cannot bear very much reality.”  “April is the cruellest month.”“I will show you fear in a handful of dust.”  Yet the muddle of his private life left the impression of a callous, enigmatic personality. Siegfried Sassoon, his contemporary, described him as “cold-storaged humanity&rdq