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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 the use of language, writing style, and verse structure.
The 1948 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to British-American poet Thomas Stearns Eliot (pen name, T. S. Eliot) (1888–1965) "for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry." [1] Eliot is the fourth British (born in the United States) recipient of the prize after John Galsworthy in 1932.
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 ...
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.
Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888–1965) United Kingdom (born in the United States) English "for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry" [49] poetry, essay, drama 1949: William Faulkner (1897–1962) United States: English "for his powerful and artistically unique contribution to the modern American novel" [50] novel, short story ...
Eliot's work fundamentally changed literary thinking and Selected Essays provides both an overview and an in-depth examination of his theory. [1] It was published in 1932 by his employers, Faber & Faber, costing 12/6 (2009: £32). [2] In addition to his poetry, by 1932, Eliot was already accepted as one of English Literature's most important ...
"The Hollow Men" (1925) is a poem by the modernist writer T. S. Eliot. Like much of his work, its themes are overlapping and fragmentary, concerned with post–World War I Europe under the Treaty of Versailles, hopelessness, religious conversion, redemption and, some critics argue, his failing marriage with Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot. [2]
Thomas Stearns Eliot, better known as T. S. Eliot, was awarded the 1948 Nobel Prize in Literature. Throughout the 20th century, Martha May Eliot , Abigail Adams Eliot , and Clara Eliot achieved prominence in the fields of public health, early childhood education, and economics, respectively.