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T. S. Eliot
Thomas Stearns Eliot was a poet, essayist and playwright. He was a leading figure of modernist poetry in the English language where he altered the art through his use of pessimistic language, writing style, and verse structure. Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948, he is considered one of the greatest poets of the English language. He is also noted for his critical essays, which often re-…
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culture · Poet, essayist and playwright (1888–1965) · playwright · poet · essayist · literary critic · social critic · short story writer · university teacher · screenwriter · lyricist · children's writer · also T. S. Eliot, T S Eliot, Eliot, Thomas Eliot
Born 26 September 1888 · Died 4 January 1965 · Q37767
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2026· 15 entries
“Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a cigar”
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“The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason.”
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“The rats are underneath the piles. / The jew is underneath the lot. / Money in furs.”
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“Missouri and the Mississippi have made a deeper impression on me than any other part of the world.”
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Sports Mole: Hull City injury, suspension list and return dates vs. Man United: Eliot Matazo, Charlie Hughes latest
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Yahoo: The Eliot Foss Foundation hosts back-to-school social for local families
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Fédération Internationale de Hockey: FIH Hockey Men's World Cup 2026: Hero Vida Goal of the Day - Eliot Curty (FRA) vs BEL | #HWC2026
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Zamin.uz: Eliot Anderson reveals why he rejected Manchester United's offer
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Mshale: Ethan Quinn And Eliot Spizzirri Train For 5-Set Matches | OFF SEASON Ep. 5 Danhausen (7W2ejQkl57)
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Runner's World: Tracksmith’s Eliot Ryder Packs a 45mm Stack and a Roomy Fit—Here’s How It Felt on the Run
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Mshale: Ethan Quinn And Eliot Spizzirri Train For 5-Set Matches | OFF SEASON Ep. 5 Trailer Spike Lee (Be8XqkWKRg)
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craveyoutv.com: ‘My Life With the Walter Boys’ Season 3 — Who Is Eliot? And Should We Be Worried?
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The Guardian: John Kearns: Tilting at Windmills review – a handful of dust (and prawn cocktail crisps) in riff on TS Eliot
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The Guardian: Karen Solie’s Wellwater wins TS Eliot poetry prize
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2025· 2 entries
The Guardian: ‘Great range and power’: TS Eliot poetry prize shortlist announced
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The Guardian: ‘There’s a majesty to grief’: TS Eliot poetry prize winner Peter Gizzi
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2019· 1 entry
Princeton University: T.S. Eliot letters, among best-known sealed literary archives, open at Princeton after 60 years
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2015· 1 entry
WBUR: T.S. Eliot And The Birth Of The Modern Poet
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2013· 1 entry
New Republic: Becoming T. S. Eliot, for Better and for Worse
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1989· 1 entry
The writer Cynthia Ozick refers to this peak of influence (from the 1940s through the early 1960s) as "the Age of Eliot" when Eliot "seemed pure zenith, a colossus, nothing less than a permanent luminary, fixed in the fi
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1988· 1 entry
Was a strong indication of the intimidating continued presence of his poetic voice
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1986· 1 entry
A blue plaque was placed on the building - No
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1983· 2 entries
Awarded Tony Award for Best Original Score for Cats (1983).
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Awarded Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical for Cats (1983).
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1981· 2 entries
Awarded Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Musical (1981).
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And opening on Broadway the following year
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1978· 1 entry
“Humankind cannot bear very much reality.”
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1967· 2 entries
And consisting mainly of poems published between 1907 and 1910 in The Harvard Advocate, and Inventions of the March Hare: Poems 1909–1917, material Eliot never intended to have published, which appeared posthumously in 1
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On the second anniversary of his death, Eliot was commemorated by the placement of a large stone in the floor of Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey
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1965· 2 entries
Died 1965-01-04.
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“No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest—for it is a part of education to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude.”
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1964· 1 entry
Won Presidential Medal of Freedom presented by Lyndon B. Johnson (1964).
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1959· 2 entries
Won Emerson-Thoreau Medal (1959).
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Eliot said of his nationality and its role in his work: "I'd say that my poetry has obviously more in common with my distinguished contemporaries in America than with anything written in my generation in England
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1957· 1 entry
Hayward retained his collection of Eliot's papers, which he bequeathed to King's College, Cambridge, in 1965
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1954· 1 entry
The composer Alan Rawsthorne set six of the poems for speaker and orchestra in a work titled Practical Cats
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1952· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Rennes (1952).
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1951· 1 entry
Awarded doctor honoris causa from the University of Paris (1951).
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1950· 1 entry
Awarded Tony Award for Best Play for The Cocktail Party (1950).
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1948· 4 entries
Awarded Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order (1948).
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature (1948).
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“for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry”
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Is considered one of the greatest poets of the English language
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1939· 1 entry
Eliot published a book of light verse, Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
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1936· 1 entry
Published a modern Greek translation of The Waste Land) and James Joyce
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1934· 2 entries
For the benefit of churches in the Diocese of London
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“What is still more important [than cultural homogeneity] is unity of religious background, and reasons of race and religion combine to make any large number of free-thinking Jews undesirable.”
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1933· 1 entry
(published in 1934 under the title After Strange Gods: A Primer of Modern Heresy), Eliot wrote of societal tradition and coherence, "What is still more important [than cultural homogeneity] is unity of religious backgrou
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1932· 1 entry
And formally separated in 1933, and in 1938 Vivienne's brother, Maurice, had her committed to a mental hospital, against her will, where she remained until her death of heart disease in 1947
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1931· 1 entry
"When I wrote a poem called The Waste Land, some of the more approving critics said that I had expressed 'the disillusion of a generation', which is nonsense
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1930· 1 entry
It deals with the struggle that ensues when a person who has lacked faith acquires it
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1927· 1 entry
At the age of 39 and renounced his American citizenship
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1925· 2 entries
Eliot left Lloyds to become a director in the publishing firm Faber and Gwyer (later Faber & Faber), where he remained for the rest of his career
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Collected The Waste Land and the poems in Prufrock and Poems into one volume and added The Hollow Men to form Poems: 1909–1925
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1920· 2 entries
Published more poems in Ara Vos Prec (London) and Poems: 1920 (New York)
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“s ability as a poet at the time, but the two writers soon became friends, with Eliot visiting Joyce whenever he was in Paris. Eliot and Wyndham Lewis also maintained a close friendship, leading to Lewis”
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1917· 1 entry
Took a position at Lloyds Bank in London, working on foreign accounts
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1916· 1 entry
Completed a doctoral dissertation for Harvard on "Knowledge and Experience in the Philosophy of F
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1915· 3 entries
Taught English at Birkbeck College, University of London
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“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
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Ezra Pound, overseas editor of Poetry magazine, recommended to Harriet Monroe, the magazine's founder, that she should publish "The Love Song of J
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1914· 1 entry
At the age of 25 and went on to settle, work, and marry there
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1909· 1 entry
And a Master of Arts in English literature the following year
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1908· 1 entry
When he discovered Arthur Symons's The Symbolist Movement in Literature
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1905· 1 entry
"Birds of Prey", "A Tale of a Whale" and "The Man Who Was King"
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1888· 1 entry
Born 1888-09-26.
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