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T.S. Eliot


Born
in St. Louis, Missouri, The United States
September 26, 1888

Died
January 04, 1965

Genre
Poetry, Theatre, Literary Criticism

Influences
G.K. Chesterton, Virgil, Homer, Dante Alighieri, William Shakespeare, ...more


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

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The Waste Land and Other Poems
4.22 avg rating — 73,510 ratings — published 1922 — 196 editions
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The Waste Land
4.11 avg rating — 58,932 ratings — published 1922 — 473 editions
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4.07 avg rating — 29,705 ratings — published 1939 — 363 editions
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4.32 avg rating — 22,594 ratings — published 1915 — 2 editions
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Collected Poems, 1909-1962
4.29 avg rating — 21,682 ratings — published 1963 — 101 editions
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Four Quartets
4.37 avg rating — 19,744 ratings — published 1943 — 214 editions
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The Waste Land, Prufrock an...
4.14 avg rating — 12,090 ratings — published 1922 — 42 editions
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Murder in the Cathedral
3.71 avg rating — 12,435 ratings — published 1936 — 230 editions
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Selected Poems
4.19 avg rating — 10,370 ratings — published 1948
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4.34 avg rating — 7,030 ratings — published 1952 — 33 editions
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“For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice.”
― T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets
tags: language, new-year, voice, words
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“This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.”
― T.S. Eliot
tags: apocalypse, despair, poetry
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“To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.”
― T.S. Eliot, The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism
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