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Thomas Stearns Eliot OM (26 September 1888 – 4 January 1965) was a poet, essayist and playwright. [1] He was a leading figure in English-language Modernist poetry where he reinvigorated the art through his use of language, writing style, and verse structure.
Sir Thomas Elyot (c. 1496 – 26 March 1546) was an English diplomat and scholar. He is best known as one of the first proponents of the use of the English language for literary purposes. He is best known as one of the first proponents of the use of the English language for literary purposes.
Thomas Lamb Eliot (1841–1936), Oregon pioneer T. S. Eliot (Thomas Stearns Eliot, 1888–1965), modernist author and poet Thomas H. Eliot (1907–1991), American lawyer, politician and academic
A Commentary on T.S. Eliot's Poem The Waste Land: The Infertility Theme and the Poet's Unhappy Marriage. Lewiston: Edwin Mellen. Lane, Anthony (26 September 2022). "The Shocks and Aftershocks of "The Waste Land" ". The New Yorker. Miller, James (1977). T. S. Eliot's Personal Waste Land. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press.
The Cocktail Party is a verse drama in three acts by T. S. Eliot written in 1948 and performed in 1949 at the Edinburgh Festival.It was published in 1950. [1] It was the most popular of Eliot's seven plays in his lifetime, although his 1935 play, Murder in the Cathedral, is better remembered today.
T. S. Eliot in 1920, in a photo taken by Lady Ottoline Morrell. In 1925, Eliot became a poetry editor at the London publishing firm of Faber and Gwyer, Ltd., [4]: pp.50–51 after a career in banking, and subsequent to the success of his earlier poems, including "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (1915), "Gerontion" (1920) and "The Waste Land" (1922). [5]
Eliot refers to this organic tradition, this developing canon, as the "mind of Europe." The private mind is subsumed by this more massive one. This leads to Eliot's so-called "Impersonal Theory" of poetry. Since the poet engages in a "continual surrender of himself" to the vast order of tradition, artistic creation is a process of ...
Memorial plaque in St Michael and All Angels' Church, East Coker. In 1939 T. S. Eliot thought that he would be unable to continue writing poetry. In an attempt to see if he could still, he started copying aspects of Burnt Norton and substituted another place: East Coker, a place that Eliot visited in 1937 with the parish church, where his ashes were later kept. [1]