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26 September 1888–4 January 1965
Also known as Thomas Stearns Eliot
Thomas Stearns Eliot was an American poet, playwright, and literary critic, arguably the most important English-language poet of the 20th century.[3] His first notable publication, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, begun in February 1910 and published in Chicago in June 1915, is regarded as a masterpiece of the modernist movement.[4] It was followed by some of the best-known poems in the English language, including Gerontion (1920), The Waste Land (1922), The Hollow Men (1925), Ash Wednesday (1930), Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939), and Four Quartets (1945). He is also known for his seven plays, particularly Murder in the Cathedral (1935) and The Cocktail Party (1949). He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Order of Merit in 1948. (Source.)
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Readers in conversation
Public notes, reviews, lists, and conversations around T. S. Eliot.
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I've had a slow approach to Eliot, but what finally got me on the train (though like everyone I've always liked Prufock) was an almost idle decision recently to memorize the first section of The Waste Land, which deepened my appreciation for the poem's demoti…
These fragments I have shored against my ruins
He who was living is now dead We who were living are now dying