Many have thought of the poet and publisher T.S. Eliot as stern and unapproachable, but an exhibition of letters coming to the British Library shows him to be a compassionate advocate of struggling writers and willing to publish a lesbian novel, one of the first ever. I think it’s interesting that he says, “I am perpetually being shocked by what doesn’t shock other people and not being shocked [by what does],” meaning he thought himself a poor judge of censorship issues. (via Books, Inq.)