TSEliot

`T.S Eliot was a poet, critic, and editor, born September 26, 1888 Thomas Stearns Eliot in St.Louis, Missouri. `Eliot was the youngest of seven children to a prosperous family. `He liveed in St.Louis and attended Harvard University the first eighteen years of his life. `In 1910 he left the United States and went to Paris. `After a year in Paris, he returned to Harvard to pursue a doctorate in philosophy, but returned to Europe and settled down in England in 1914. `That same year he married Vivienne Haigh-Wood and began working in London. `After living in the United States, Eliot moved to England in 1914**,** working as a bank clerk while writing his first collection of poetry `A highly regarded critic, Eliot was the founder and longtime editor of a literary magazine. ` Eliot became a British subject and member of the Church of England in 1927. `**Eliot's "The Waste Land" is the most famous English poem of the 20th century. `Eliot's first collection of poetry was //Prufrock and Other Observations// (1917, featuring "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"). `Eliot's professional success covered personal suffering in his life as the Eliots' marriage crumbled making him have a nervous breakdown. `The breakdown resulted in three months of enforced rest. `It was during this period that 'The Waste Land' was made. `It was published in Eliot's literarty magizine //The Criterion.// `With growth in the Christian meditations of //Four Quartets// (1943), his last major poetic achievement. `Eliot poured much of his energy into attempting to restore the verse drama to varying success, with //Murder in the Cathedral// and //The Cocktail Party// usually considered the most effective of these experiments.
 * Personal Life**
 * Professional Life**
 * Major Works

`Hanseatic [|Goethe Prize] ([|Hamburg], 1955) `Dante Medal ([|Florence], 1959) `Two posthumous [|Tony Awards] (1983) for his poems used in the musical //[|Cats]// `[|Eliot College] of the [|University of Kent], [|England], named after him `Has a star on the [|St. Louis Walk of Fame]
 * Eliot's vast collection of critical works include; //The Sacred Wood// (1920); //For Lancelot Andrewes// (1928); //Selected Essays, 1917–32// (1932); //The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism// (1933); //After Strange Gods// (1934); //Elizabethan Essays// (1934); //Essays Ancient and Modern// (1936); and //Notes towards a Definition of Culture// (1948).*
 * Awards Won/Formal Recognition**
 * `**[|Nobel Prize for Literature] "for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry"