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description: Here I am an old man in a dry monthBeing read to by a boy waiting for rain.So begins one of TS Eliot's most famous poems Gerontion frequently read published within The Waste Land and Other Poems. T.S. Elliot was a poet essayist publisher playwright literary critic and editor. Born in 1888 in St. Louis (MO USA) he is considered one of the 20th century's major poets and a central figure in English-language Modernist poetry.In ten years' time wrote Edmund Wilson in Axel's Castle (1931) Elliot has left upon English poetry a mark more unmistakable than that of any other poet writing in English. In 1948 Eliot was awarded the Nobel Price for his work as a trail-blazing pioneer of modern poetry.
language: English
title: Gerontion
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