T. S. Eliot

About T. S. Eliot

Thomas Stearns Eliot was an American-born British poet, essayist, publisher, playwright, and literary critic, widely regarded as one of the twentieth century's major figures in Modernist literature. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, on September 26, 1888, he studied at Harvard University before moving to England in 1914. He officially became a British subject in 1927. Eliot gained international fame with groundbreaking poems such as The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock in 1915 and The Waste Land in 1922, which profoundly influenced modern poetry. His later major poetic works include The Hollow Men, Ash Wednesday, and Four Quartets. He also wrote influential plays, including Murder in the Cathedral, and spent decades as a prominent director at the publishing house Faber and Faber. For his outstanding contribution to poetry, Eliot received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. He died in London on January 4, 1965.

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