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Thomas Stearns Eliot (26 September 1888 – 4 January 1965) was a poet, essayist, publisher, playwright, literary critic and editor. He is considered to be one of the 20th century's greatest poets, as well as a central figure in English-language Modernist poetry. His use of language, writing style, and verse structure reinvigorated English poetry. He is also noted for his critical essays, which often reevaluated long-held cultural beliefs. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, to a prominent Boston Brahmin family, he moved to England in 1914 at the age of 25 and went on to settle, work, and marry there. He became a British subject in 1927 at the age of 39 and renounced his American citizenship. Eliot first attracted widespread attention for his poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" from 1914 to 1915, which, at the time of its publication, was considered outlandish. It was followed by The Waste Land (1922), "The Hollow Men" (1925), "Ash Wednesday" (1930), and Four Quartets (1943). He was also known for seven plays, particularly Murder in the Cathedral (1935) and The Cocktail Party (1949). He was awarded the 1948 Nobel Prize in Literature, "for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry". Life Early life and education The Eliots were a Boston Brahmin family, with roots in England and New England. Eliot's paternal grandfather, William Greenleaf Eliot, had moved to St. Louis, Missouri, to establish a Unitarian Christian church there. His father, Henry Ware Eliot, was a successful businessman, president and treasurer of the Hydraulic-Press Brick Company in St Louis. His mother, Charlotte Champe Stearns, who wrote poetry, was a social worker, which was a new profession in the U.S. in the early 20th century. Eliot was the last of six surviving children. Known to family and friends as Tom, he was the namesake of his maternal grandfather, Thomas Stearns. Eliot's childhood infatuation with literature can be ascribed to several factors. First, he had to overcome physical limitations as a child. Struggling from a congenital double inguinal hernia, he could not participate in many physical activities and thus was prevented from socialising with his peers. As he was often isolated, his love for literature developed. Once he learned to read, the young boy immediately became obsessed with books, favouring tales of savage life, the Wild West, or Mark Twain's thrill-seeking Tom Sawyer. In his memoir about Eliot, his friend Robert Sencourt comments that the young Eliot "would often curl up in the window-seat behind an enormous book, setting the drug of dreams against the pain of living." Secondly, Eliot credited his hometown with fuelling his literary vision: "It is self-evident that St. Louis affected me more deeply than any other environment has ever done. I feel that there is something in having passed one's childhood beside the big river, which is incommunicable to those people who have not. I consider myself fortunate to have been born here, rather than in Boston, or New York, or London." From 1898 to 1905, Eliot attended Smith Academy, the boys college preparatory division of Washington University, where his studies included Latin, Ancient Greek, French, and German. He began to write poetry when he was 14 under the influence of Edward Fitzgerald's translation of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. He said the results were gloomy and despairing and he destroyed them. His first published poem, "A Fable For Feasters", was written as a school exercise and was published in the Smith Academy Record in February 1905. Also published there in April 1905 was his oldest surviving poem in manuscript, an untitled lyric, later revised and reprinted as "Song" in The Harvard Advocate, Harvard University's student literary magazine. He published three short stories in 1905, "Birds of Prey", "A Tale of a Whale" and "The Man Who Was King". The last mentioned story reflected his exploration of the Igorot Village while visiting the 1904 World's Fair of St. Louis. His interest in indigenous peoples thus predated his anthropological studies at Harvard. Eliot lived in St. Louis, Missouri, for the first 16 years of his life at the house on Locust Street where he was born. After going away to school in 1905, he returned to St. Louis only for vacations and visits. Despite moving away from the city, Eliot wrote to a friend that "Missouri and the Mississippi have made a deeper impression on me than any other part of the world." Following graduation from Smith Academy, Eliot attended Milton Academy in Massachusetts for a preparatory year, where he met Scofield Thayer who later published The Waste Land. He studied at Harvard College from 1906 to 1909, earning a Bachelor of Arts in an elective program similar to comparative literature in 1909 and a Master of Arts in English literature the following year. Because of his year at Milton Academy, Eliot was allowed to earn his Bachelor of Arts after three years instead of the usual four. Frank Kermode writes that the most important moment of Eliot's undergraduate career was in 1908 when he discovered Arthur Symons's The Symbolist Movement in Literature. This introduced him to Jules Laforgue, Arthur Rimbaud, and Paul Verlaine. Without Verlaine, Eliot wrote, he might never have heard of Tristan Corbière and his book Les amours jaunes, a work that affected the course of Eliot's life. The Harvard Advocate published some of his poems and he became lifelong friends with Conrad Aiken, the American writer and critic. After working as a philosophy assistant at Harvard from 1909 to 1910, Eliot moved to Paris where, from 1910 to 1911, he studied philosophy at the Sorbonne. He attended lectures by Henri Bergson and read poetry with Henri Alban-Fournier. From 1911 to 1914, he was back at Harvard studying Indian philosophy and Sanskrit. Whilst a member of the Harvard Graduate School, Eliot met and fell in love with Emily Hale. Eliot was awarded a scholarship to Merton College, Oxford, in 1914. He first visited Marburg, Germany, where he planned to take a summer programme, but when the First World War broke out he went to Oxford instead. At the time so many American students attended Merton that the Junior Common Room proposed a motion "that this society abhors the Americanization of Oxford". It was defeated by two votes after Eliot reminded the students how much they owed American culture. Eliot wrote to Conrad Aiken on New Year's Eve 1914: "I hate university towns and university people, who are the same everywhere, with pregnant wives, sprawling children, many books and hideous pictures on the walls [...] Oxford is very pretty, but I don't like to be dead." Escaping Oxford, Eliot spent much of his time in London. This city had a monumental and life-altering effect on Eliot for several reasons, the most significant of which was his introduction to the influential American literary figure Ezra Pound. A connection through Aiken resulted in an arranged meeting and on 2.... Discover the T S Eliot popular books. Find the top 100 most popular T S Eliot books.
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T. S. Eliot
John WorthenBiographical writing about Eliot is in a more confused and contested state than is the case with any other major twentiethcentury writer. No major biography has been released since...
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The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume II
T. S. Eliot, Christopher Ricks & Jim McCueThe Poems of T. S. Eliot is the authoritative edition of one of our greatest poets, scrupulously edited by Christopher Ricks and Jim McCue. It provides, for the first time, a fully...
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The Waste Land
T.S. EliotFirst published in 1922, ‘The Waste Land’ is a poem by T.S. Eliot, a poet, essayist, publisher, playwright, literary critic, and editor. Deemed one of the 20th century's major poet...
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Gold Cell
Sharon OldsA dazzling collection of poems by the Pulitzer Prize and T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry winner, called "a poet for these times, a powerful woman who won’t back down" (San Francisco C...
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The T.S. Eliot Collection
T.S. EliotTHE COLLECTED WORKS OF T.S. ELIOT Prufrock, The Waste Land, Gerontion, Preludes, Plus Many, Many More Poems and Essays. A Superb Collection of Eliot's Major works In One Beautifu...
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Poems 1918-21
Ezra PoundIn Poems 191821 Ezra Pound shares his strong yet subtly lyrical poems including the more epic Three Portraits and Four Cantos. The style is often that of modernism devoid of symbol...
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T.S. Eliot
Daniele GigliA oltre cinquant’anni dalla morte, il nome di T.S. Eliot e della sua Terra desolata, il poema metamorfico sulla caduta dell’Occidente, risuonano ancora alti e chiari. Ma che cosa c...
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The Forsyte Collection - Complete 9 Books
John GalsworthyThe Forsyte Saga is a series of three novels and two interludes published between 1906 and 1921 by Nobel Prizewinning English author John Galsworthy. They chronicle the vicissitude...
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The Waste Land and Other Poems
T S Eliot & Frank KermodeA Penguin ClassicWhile recovering from a mental collapse in a Swiss sanitarium in 1921, T. S. Eliot finished what became the definitive poem of the modern condition, one that still...
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Discovering Modernism
Louis MenandWhen Discovering Modernism was first published, it shed new and welcome light on the birth of Modernism. This reissue of Menand's classic intellectual history of T.S. Eliot and the...
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The classic collection of T.S. Eliot. Nobel Prize 1948
T.S. EliotThomas Stearns Eliot was a poet, essayist, publisher, playwright, literary critic and editor. Considered one of the 20th century's major poets, he is a central figure in Englishlan...
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The Essential T.S. Eliot
T. S. EliotA selection of the most significant and enduring poems from one of the twentieth century’s major writers, chosen and introduced by Vijay SeshadriT.S. Eliot was a towering figure in...
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The Daemon Knows
Harold BloomNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND KIRKUS REVIEWSHailed as “the indispensable critic” by The New York Review of Book...
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Poems by T.S. Eliot Audio Edition
T.S. EliotPoems by T.S. Eliot Audio Edition, is an anthology of 15 original poems by T.S. Eliot. This selection features embedded audio of all poems, so you can listen a read along. This vol...
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Collection of American Poetry
Various AuthorsTable of ContentsWilliam Cullen Bryant 17941878Stephen Crane 18711900Emily Dickinson 18301886T. S. Eliot 18881965Ralph Waldo Emerson 18031882Robert Frost 18741963Oliver Wendell Hol...
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Works of T. S. Eliot
T S EliotThis collection was designed for optimal navigation on iPad and other electronic devices. All books included in this collection feature a hyperlinked table of contents and footno...
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ARNOLD BENNETT Ultimate Collection
Arnold BennettThis carefully crafted ebook: "ARNOLD BENNETT Ultimate Collection" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Novels: A Man from the No...
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T. S. Eliot
Elisabeth W. SchneiderThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voi...
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Young Eliot
Robert CrawfordA groundbreaking new biography of one of the twentieth century's most important poetsOn the fiftieth anniversary of the death of T. S. Eliot, the awardwinning biographer Robert Cra...
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T. S. Eliot
Harriet DavidsonOne of the most influential poets of the twentieth century, T. S. Eliot is generally regarded as a leading exponent of the literary movement which came to be known as Modernism. In...
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The Waste Land and Other Poems
T. S. EliotA collection of T.S. Eliot’s most important poems, including “The Waste Land” and “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.”T. S. Eliot is one of the most important and influ...
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Complete Plays of Robert Browning
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The Complete Plays of T. S. Eliot
T. S. EliotThe collected dramatic works of the Nobel Prize winner, from Murder in the Cathedral to The Elder Statesman. T. S. Eliot’s playsMurder in the Cathedral, The Family Reun...
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The Conservative Mind
Russell Kirk"It is inconceivable even to imagine, let alone hope for, a dominant conservative movement in America without Kirk's labor." WILLIAM F BUCKLEY "A profound critique of co...
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Hothouse
Boris Kachka“Mad Men for the literary world.” Junot DíazFarrar, Straus and Giroux is arguably the most influential publishing house of the modern era. Home to an unrivaled twentyfive Nobel Pri...
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4 Novels by E.M.Forster
E.M. ForsterThis carefully crafted ebook: "4 Novels by E.M.Forster: Where Angels Fear to Tread + The Longest Journey + A Room with a View + Howards End (4 Unabridged Classics in 1 eBook)...
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T.S. Eliot
Paul BrodyBorn in what was then still considered the American West, educated in the Ivy Halls of the Northeast, and repatriated as an English subject in 1927, Thomas Stearns Eliot today stan...
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Essays and Letters
Friedrich Hölderlin, Charlie Louth & Jeremy AdlerOne of Germany's greatest poets, Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin (17701843) was also a prose writer of intense feeling, intelligence and perception. This new translation of se...
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American Studies
Louis MenandAt each step of this journey through American cultural history, Louis Menand has an original point to make: he explains the real significance of William James's nervous breakdown, ...
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Enough Rope
Dorothy ParkerEnough Rope is Dorothy Parker's first volume of poetry. The Nation described her verse as "caked with a salty humor, rough with splinters of disillusion, and tarred with a ...
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Delphi Collected Works of T. S. Eliot
T. S. EliotAn AmericanEnglish poet, playwright and influential literary critic, T. S. Eliot was a leader of the Modernist movement in poetry, producing important works such as ‘The Waste Land...
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The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I
T. S. Eliot, Christopher Ricks & Jim McCueHere, for the first time, is a fully scrutinized text of Eliot's poems, carefully restoring accidental omissions and removing textual errors that have crept in over the full centur...
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The Early Classics of T.S. Eliot
T.S. EliotKarpathos publishes the greatest works of history's greatest authors and collects them to make it easy and affordable for readers to have them all at the push of a button. Al...
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T.S. Eliot
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T. S. Eliot
Frederick TomlinFirst published in 1988. Fredrick Tomlin and T. S. Eliot were friends for almost thirtyfour years. What emerges from Fredrick Tomlin’s memories and the many letters which passed be...
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Joyce, T. S. Eliot, Auden, Beckett
Adrian PooleGreat Shakespeareans offers a systematic account of thosefigures who have had the greatest influence on the interpretation,understanding and cultural reception of Shakespeare, both...
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T. S. Eliot
Craig RaineThe winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, the twentieth century's most famous poet and its most influential literary arbiter, T.S. Eliot has long been thought to be an obscure ...
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Notes on the Death of Culture
Mario Vargas Llosa & John KingA provocative essay collection that finds the Nobel laureate taking on the decline of intellectual lifeIn the past, culture was a kind of vital consciousness that constantly rejuve...
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Cane
Jean Toomer & George B. HutchinsonThe Harlem Renaissance writer's innovative and groundbreaking novel depicting African American life in the South and North, with a foreword by National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 h...
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Redeeming Time
Kenneth Paul KramerThis exploration of T. S. Eliot's last major poem, Four Quartets, examines the poem's potential to transform readers' faith journeys. Kramer shows that the power of Four Quartets i...