T S Eliot

T S Eliot
T S Eliot [T S Eliot]
(Thomas Stearns Eliot 1888–1965) a British ↑poet, writer of plays, and literary critic, born in the US. Ezra Pound encouraged him to live in England, where from 1914 he made his home. Eliot’s poems have had a great influence on other poets, particularly ↑Waste Land and ↑Four Quartets. One of his most important new ideas was to use the natural rhythms of speech in his poetry. His best-known plays are Murder in the Cathedral (1935) and The Cocktail Party (1951). In 1948 he was given the ↑Nobel Prize for literature.

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