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Sep 26, 2013 · Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive. Thomas Stearns Eliot. The Nobel Prize in Literature 1948. Born: 26 September 1888, St. Louis, MO, USA. Died: 4 January 1965, London, United Kingdom. Residence at the time of the award: United Kingdom. Prize motivation: “for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry”.
Feb 18, 2020 · T.S. Eliot (September 26, 1888–January 4, 1965) was an American-born poet, essayist, publisher, playwright, and critic. One of the most eminent modernists, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948 “for his outstanding, pioneer contributions to present-day poetry.”
The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot Title page of the first book edition (December 1922) First published in The Criterion (UK) The Dial (US) Country United Kingdom Publication date 16 October 1922 (UK) c. 20 October 1922 (US) Lines 434 Full text The Waste Land at Wikisource The Waste Land is a poem by T. S. Eliot, widely regarded as one of the most important English-language poems of the 20th century and a central work of modernist poetry. Published in 1922, the 434-line poem first appeared in the ...
Apr 2, 2014 · Thomas Stearns "T.S." Eliot was born in St. Louis, Missouri, on September 26, 1888. He attended Smith Academy in St. Louis and then the Milton Academy in Massachusetts, as his family was ...
T. S. Eliot, (born Sept. 26, 1888, St. Louis, Mo., U.S.—died Jan. 4, 1965, London, Eng.), U.S.-British poet, playwright, and critic. Eliot studied at Harvard University before moving to England in 1914, where he would work as an editor from the early 1920s until his death. His first important poem, and the first modernist masterpiece in ...
The Life. Lyndall Gordon, Eliot’s biographer and Senior Research Fellow at St Hilda’s College, Oxford, on the life of the poet. Thomas Stearns Eliot was born on 26 September 1888 in St Louis, Missouri, the son of a New England schoolteacher and a St Louis merchant. Thirty-eight years later he was baptised as an Anglican in an English village.
Jun 20, 2024 · Hugh Alistair Davies. T.S. Eliot - Poet, Plays, Critic: Eliot’s masterpiece is Four Quartets, which was issued as a book in 1943, though each “quartet” is a complete poem. “Burnt Norton” was the first of the quartets; it had appeared in the Collected Poems of 1936. It is a subtle meditation on the nature of time and its relation to ...
