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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.

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Average rating: 4.14 · 274,522 ratings · 11,040 reviews · 468 distinct works • Similar authors
The Waste Land and Other Poems
4.22 avg rating — 59,581 ratings — published 1922 — 118 editions
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The Waste Land
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Old Possum's Book of Practi...
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4.07 avg rating — 25,826 ratings — published 1939 — 643 editions
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Collected Poems, 1909-1962
4.29 avg rating — 20,454 ratings — published 1963 — 49 editions
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The Love Song of J. Alfred ...
4.32 avg rating — 19,921 ratings — published 1915 — 80 editions
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Four Quartets
4.38 avg rating — 16,113 ratings — published 1943 — 14 editions
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The Wasteland, Prufrock and...
4.17 avg rating — 10,835 ratings — published 1922 — 29 editions
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Selected Poems
4.21 avg rating — 9,503 ratings — published 1948 — 54 editions
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Murder in the Cathedral
3.71 avg rating — 10,003 ratings — published 1936 — 95 editions
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The Complete Poems and Play...
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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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“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
― T.S. Eliot
tags: poetry
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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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Polls

What is your favorite T.S. Eliot poem?

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
 
  22 votes, 41.5%

The Waste Land
 
  16 votes, 30.2%

Journey of the Magi
 
  4 votes, 7.5%

Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (write-in)
 
  4 votes, 7.5%

Four Quartets (write-in)
 
  3 votes, 5.7%

Marina
 
  2 votes, 3.8%

Little Gidding (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 3.8%

Gerontion
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

Ash Wednesday
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

53 total votes
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