Only Connect - Sir Michael Tippett <> T.S. Eliot
How are these sitters connected?
Sir Michael Kemp Tippett
by Martin Rose
1989
NPG 6043
T.S. Eliot
by Patrick Heron
1949
NPG 4467
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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