T.S. Eliot





T.S. Eliot

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

died
January 04, 1965

gender
male

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influences
Homer, Virgil, The Bible, Dante, Shakespeare and Early Modern Theatre,...more


About this author

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


Average rating: 4.17 · 92,806 ratings · 2,556 reviews · 179 distinct works · Similar authors
The Waste Land and Other Poems
4.23 of 5 stars 4.23 avg rating — 21,805 ratings — published 1922 — 33 editions
The Waste Land
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4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 17,040 ratings — published 1922 — 68 editions
Collected Poems, 1909-1962
4.3 of 5 stars 4.30 avg rating — 9,748 ratings — published 1963 — 14 editions
Old Possum's Book of Practi...
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4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 8,702 ratings — published 1939 — 45 editions
The Love Song of J. Alfred ...
4.32 of 5 stars 4.32 avg rating — 6,624 ratings — published 1915 — 4 editions
Four Quartets
4.36 of 5 stars 4.36 avg rating — 6,223 ratings — published 1943 — 29 editions
The Wasteland, Prufrock and...
4.23 of 5 stars 4.23 avg rating — 4,626 ratings — published 1998 — 11 editions
Selected Poems
4.23 of 5 stars 4.23 avg rating — 3,193 ratings — published 1934 — 20 editions
The Complete Poems and Play...
4.38 of 5 stars 4.38 avg rating — 2,214 ratings — published 1942
Murder in the Cathedral
3.66 of 5 stars 3.66 avg rating — 2,613 ratings — published 1935 — 28 editions
More books by T.S. Eliot…
“For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice.”
T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets

“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

“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
T.S. Eliot

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