T. S. Eliot
T. S. Eliot
Eliot in 1934 by Lady Ottoline Morrell
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a poet, essayist, publisher, playwright, literary critic and editor. Considered one of the 20th century's major poets, he is a central figure in English-language Modernist poetry
Born
Thomas Stearns Eliot 26 September 1888 St. Louis, Missouri, US
Died
4 January 1965 (aged 76) London, England
Occupation
Poet essayist playwright publisher critic
adultbasic
Britain
Citizenship
American (1888–1927) British (1927–1965)
Education
Harvard University ( AB, AM, PhD candidate) Merton College, Oxford
era
1800+
Literary movement
Modernism
Notable awards
Nobel Prize in Literature (1948) Order of Merit (1948)
Notable works
" The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock " (1915) The Waste Land (1922) Four Quartets (1943) Murder in the Cathedral (1935)
Parents
Henry Ware Eliot Charlotte Champe Stearns
Period
1905–1965
Relatives
Eliot family
Spouse
Vivienne Haigh-Wood ( m. 1915; sep. 1932) Esmé Valerie Fletcher ( m. 1957; his death 1965)