Eliot, T. S.
Eliot, T. S. , Thomas Stearns Eliot ( 1888 – 1965 ),a major figure in English literature since the 1920s. He was born at St Louis, Missouri, and educated at Harvard, the Sorbonne, and Merton College, Oxford, where he pursued a doctoral thesis on F. H. Bradley begun at Harvard. In 1914 he met Pound , who encouraged him to settle in England; in June 1915 he married Vivien Haigh-Wood , and in the same month his poem ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’ appeared (also with Pound's encouragement) in Poetry . Eliot taught briefly during the war, then in 1917 began to work for Lloyds Bank; from 1917 he was also assistant editor of the Egoist . His first volume of verse, Prufrock and Other Observations ( 1917 ), was followed by Poems ( 1919 ), hand-printed by L. and V. Woolf at the Hogarth Press ; these struck a new note in modern poetry, satiric, allusive,...
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