T.S. Eliot
author profile
born
December 13, 1901
died
January 04, 1965
gender
male
place of birth
St. Louis, Missouri, The United States
genre
Poetry, Literature & Fiction
influences
Homer, Virgil, The Bible, Dante, Shakespeare and Early Modern English Theatre, Dr. Johnson, Arnold, Laforgue, Yeats, Donne, Baudelaire, Conrad, Tennyson, Frazer, Hulme, Pound
about this author
Correct date of birth - 26 September 1888
Thomas Stearns Eliot, OM (September 26, 1888 – January 4, 1965), 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.
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The Waste Land (Norton Critical Edition) by T.S. Eliot avg rating 4.15 — 2,804 ratings — published 1922 20 editions |
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The Waste Land and Other Poems by T.S. Eliot avg rating 4.29 — 2,273 ratings — published 1922 15 editions |
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Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, Illustrated Edition by T.S. Eliot, Edward Gorey avg rating 3.98 — 1,368 ratings — published 1939 25 editions |
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Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot avg rating 4.43 — 1,126 ratings — published 1943 13 editions |
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The Waste Land and Other Writings by T.S. Eliot avg rating 4.24 — 846 ratings — published 1922 4 editions |
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The Wasteland, Prufrock and Other Poems by T.S. Eliot avg rating 4.30 — 525 ratings — published 1922 3 editions |
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Collected Poems 1909-1962 by T.S. Eliot avg rating 4.44 — 489 ratings — published 1963 8 editions |
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The Complete Poems and Plays 1909-1950 by T.S. Eliot avg rating 4.56 — 471 ratings — published 1942 4 editions |
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Murder in the Cathedral by T.S. Eliot avg rating 3.61 — 580 ratings — published 1935 18 editions |
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The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Other Poems by T.S. Eliot avg rating 4.40 — 465 ratings — published 1976 2 editions |
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"We shall not cease from exploration / And the end of all our exploring / Will be to arrive where we started / And know the place for the first time."
— T.S. Eliot (Four Quartets)
— T.S. Eliot (Four Quartets)
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"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."
— T.S. Eliot
— T.S. Eliot
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