name: T.S. Eliot
birth_date: 1888-09-26 00:00:00
death_date: 1965-01-04 00:00:00
genres: Poetry, Theatre, Literary Criticism
influences: William Shakespeare, Dante Alighieri, John Davidson, Jules Laforgue, Virgil, Frithjof Schuon, Tristan Corbière, Homer, Tedd Arnold, Matthew Arnold, James George Frazer, G.K. Chesterton, John Milton, Brad Johnson
avg_rating: 4.14
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about: Thomas Stearns Eliot was a poet, dramatist and literary critic. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948 "for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry." He wrote the poems The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, The Waste Land, The Hollow Men, Ash Wednesday, and Four Quartets; the plays Murder in the Cathedral and The Cocktail Party; and the essay Tradition and the Individual Talent. Eliot was born an American, moved to the United Kingdom in 1914 (at the age of 25), and became a British subject in 1927 at the age of 39.See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T.S._Eliot Thomas Stearns Eliot was a poet, dramatist and literary critic. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948 "for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry." He wrote the poems The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, The Waste Land, The Hollow Men, Ash Wednesday, and Four Quartets; the plays Murder in the Cathedral and The Cocktail Party; and the essay Tradition and the Individual Talent. Eliot was born an American, moved to the United Kingdom in 1914 (at the age of 25), and became a British subject in 1927 at the age of 39.See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T.S._Eliot ...more