T. S. Eliot

Thomas Stearns Eliot OM 26 September 1888 4 January 1965 was a poet essayist and playwright He was a leading figure in Englishlanguage Modernist poetry where he reinvigorated the art through his use of language writing style and verse structure He is also noted for his critical essays which often reevaluated longheld cultural beliefs Born in St Louis Missouri United States to a prominent Boston Brahmin family he moved to England in 1914 at the age of 25 and went on to settle work and marry there He became a British subject in 1927 at the age of 39 and renounced his American citizenship Eliot first attracted widespread attention for The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock 1915 which at the time of its publication was considered outlandish It was followed by The Waste Land 1922 The Hollow Men 1925 Ash Wednesday 1930 and Four Quartets 1943 He wrote seven plays including Murder in the Cathedral 1935 and The Cocktail Party 1949 He was awarded the 1948 Nobel Prize in Literature for his outstanding pioneer contribution to presentday poetry Description above from the Wikipedia article T S Eliot licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia