Summary: <strong>T.S. Eliot</strong>, in full <strong>Thomas Stearns Eliot</strong>, (born September 26, 1888, St. Louis, <a href="https://www.britannica.com/place/Missouri-state" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Missouri</a>, U.S.—died January 4, 1965, <a href="https://www.britannica.com/place/London" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">London</a>, England), American-English poet, playwright, literary critic, and editor, a leader of the <a href="https://www.britannica.com/art/Modernism-art" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Modernist</a>movement in <a href="https://www.britannica.com/art/poetry" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">poetry</a> in such works as <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Waste-Land" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>The Waste Land</em></a> (1922) and <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Four-Quartets" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Four Quartets</em></a> (1943). Eliot exercised a strong influence on Anglo-American <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/culture" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">culture</a> from the 1920s until late in the century. His experiments in <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/diction" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">diction</a>, style, and versification revitalized English poetry, and in a series of critical essays he shattered old orthodoxies and erected new ones. The publication of <em>Four Quartets</em> led to his recognition as the greatest living English poet and man of letters, and in 1948 he was awarded both the <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/Order-of-Merit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Order of Merit</a> and the <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/Nobel-Prize" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Nobel Prize</a> for Literature. <em>-- Bio from Brittanica.com</em><br><hr><p style="color:grey;font-size:0.75em;"> See <a style="color:grey;" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>
