No posthumous privacy: the middle years of T. S. Eliot

""" And here we have over 1,000 pages of meticulously edited correspondence covering just three years of his life, buttressed by the announcement that further letters omitted from this or any of the seven earlier volumes may be found on a dedicated website. This accumulation of attention might be described in various ways, but “posthumous privacy” it is not."""

Well, in compensation, it is fair to bet that only the most madly devoted of Ph.D. students will read through it.

""" The annotated edition of The Poems runs to 2,000 pages in two fat volumes. """

For what it's worth, the edition of his poetry published during his lifetime runs to 240 pages, according to the Barnes and Noble website. I assume that the remaining seven eighths of the new edition runs mostly to arcane commentary. I suppose that it may include poems Eliot did not bother to collect in his lifetime.