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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.
Thomas Elliot (organ builder) (1759–1832), English organ builder; Thomas Frederick Elliot (1808–1880), British government official, appointed Agent-General for Emigration in 1837; Tom Elliot (rugby union, born 1880) (1880–1948), Scotland international rugby union player; Tom Elliot (1926–1998), Scotland international rugby union player
Eliot worked on what would become The Waste Land while sitting in the Nayland Rock shelter on Margate Sands, producing "some 50 lines", and the area is referenced directly in "The Fire Sermon" ("On Margate Sands / I can connect / Nothing with nothing.") [35] [36] The couple travelled to Paris in November, where Eliot showed an early version of ...
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.
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.
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]
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]
A number of Irish poets and writers moved to Paris in the early 1930s to join the circle around James Joyce. These included Samuel Beckett, Thomas MacGreevy, Brian Coffey and Denis Devlin. These writers were aware of Pound and Eliot, but they were also Francophone and took an interest in contemporary French poetry, especially the surrealists.