Trivia / T. S. Eliot

• Creator Backlash: The Rock, a church pageant he wrote in the Thirties, of which he fairly quickly decided that only the choruses were any good and never allowed the complete text to be republished. Also After Strange Gods, a series of lectures he gave in Virginia in 1933, which contain some of his most openly anti-Semitic remarks. This too he decided should not be republished after the initial run.
• Dear Negative Reader: The Triumph of Bullshit. Never published in his lifetime, but comes as a bit of a shock to readers who only know his published poetry.
  Ladies, on whom my attentions have waited
  If you consider my merits are small
  Etiolated, alembicated,
  Orotund, tasteless, fantastical,
  Monotonous, crotchety, constipated, —>Impotent galamatias
  Affected, possibly imitated,
  For Christ’s sake stick it up your ass.
• Trolling Creator: Claimed that the notes attached to The Waste Land were there to fill space, and that at least some of them were intentionally misleading. Trouble is, they aren't; they are all technically accurate. Whether they were included to be strictly informative, is another matter entirely.

• It's well known that TS Eliot is an anagram of toilets; less known is that Thomas Stearns Eliot is an anagram of loathsome train sets.