Only Connect - T.S. Eliot <> Sir Michael Tippett

How are these sitters connected?

 T.S. Eliot by Patrick Heron 1949 NPG 4467

Sir Michael Kemp Tippett by Martin Rose 1989 NPG 6043

The connection:

Michael Tippett described T. S. Eliot as his ‘spiritual father’. At their last meeting, Tippett teased him for the prose style of his play, The Family Reunion.

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