The New Yorker explored T.S. Eliot’s relationship with Emily Hale, who served as his muse and romantic confidante, according to revelations from their correspondence, which was first made public earlier this year. Eliot visited Hale in 1932, while she was an instructor at Scripps, and the two corresponded for almost two decades. The letters illuminated Hale as a source of longing and inspiration for the famous poet: According to the New Yorker, the letters “don’t just repeat ‘gossip and scandal,’ they produce it.”