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A Short Biography of T. S. Eliot

Author Name:

T. S. Eliot

Born As:

Thomas Stearns Eliot

Other Names:

Thomas Stearns Eliot OM.

Born:

26 Sep 1888

Died:

4 Jan 1965




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Poet, critic and dramatist                          
Selected Works:

Poetry:

Prufrock and Other Observations - 1917
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Portrait of a Lady - poem
Aunt Helen
Poems - 1920
Gerontion
Sweeney Among the Nightingales
The Hippopotamus
Whispers of Immortality
Mr. Eliot's Sunday Morning Service
A Cooking Egg
The Waste Land - 1922
The Hollow Men - 1925
Ariel Poems - 1927-1954
The Journey of the Magi - 1927
Ash Wednesday - 1930
Coriolan - 1931
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats - 1939
The Marching Song of the Pollicle Dogs and Billy M'Caw: The Remarkable Parrot - 1939 in The Queen's Book of the Red Cross
Four Quartets - 1945

Plays:

Sweeney Agonistes - published in 1926, first performed in 1934
The Rock - 1934
Murder in the Cathedral - 1935
The Family Reunion - 1939
The Cocktail Party - 1949
The Confidential Clerk - 1953
The Elder Statesman - first performed in 1958, published in 1959
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The Second-Order Mind - 1920
Tradition and the Individual Talent - 1920
The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism - 1920
Hamlet and His Problems
Homage to John Dryden - 1924
Shakespeare and the Stoicism of Seneca - 1928
For Lancelot Andrewes - 1928
Dante - 1929
Selected Essays, 1917–1932 - 1932
The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism - 1933
After Strange Gods - 1934
Elizabethan Essays - 1934
Essays Ancient and Modern - 1936
The Idea of a Christian Society - 1940
A Choice of Kipling's Verse - 1941 made by Eliot, with an essay on Rudyard Kipling, London, Faber and Faber.
Notes Towards the Definition of Culture - 1948
Poetry and Drama - 1951
The Three Voices of Poetry - 1954
The Frontiers of Criticism - 1956
On Poetry and Poets - 1957

Posthumous publications:

To Criticize the Critic - 1965
The Waste Land: Facsimile Edition - 1974
Inventions of the March Hare: Poems 1909-1917 - 1996                          
Mother Charlotte Champe Stearns
Father Henry Ware Eliot, six children, Thomas being the youngest child.
First wife Vivienne Haigh-Wood.
Second wife Esmé Valerie Fletcher                          
Nobel Prize in Literature - 1948                          
Protege of Ezra Pound.

The Order of Merit is a British and Commonwealth Order bestowed by the Monarch.

Became a British subject in 1927.