T.S. Eliot, in full
Thomas Stearns Eliot, (born September 26, 1888, St. Louis,
Missouri, U.S.—died January 4, 1965,
London, England), American-English poet, playwright, literary critic, and editor, a leader of the
Modernistmovement in
poetry in such works as
The Waste Land (1922) and
Four Quartets (1943). Eliot exercised a strong influence on Anglo-American
culture from the 1920s until late in the century. His experiments in
diction, style, and versification revitalized English poetry, and in a series of critical essays he shattered old orthodoxies and erected new ones. The publication of
Four Quartets led to his recognition as the greatest living English poet and man of letters, and in 1948 he was awarded both the
Order of Merit and the
Nobel Prize for Literature.
-- Bio from Brittanica.com
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