Biography
Thomas Stearns Eliot (26 September 1888 – 4 January 1965) was a poet, essayist, publisher, playwright, literary critic and editor. He is considered to be one of the 20th century's greatest poets, as well as a central figure in English-language Modernist poetry. His trials in language, writing style, and verse structure reinvigorated English poetry. He is also noted for his critical essays, which often reevaluated long-held cultural beliefs.Born in St. Louis, Missouri, 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 his poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" from 1914 to 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 was also known for seven plays, particularly 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 present-day poetry". T. S. Eliot at the Poetry Foundation
Biography From T. S. Eliot Lives' and Legacies Archived 14 February 2007 at the Wayback Machine
Eliot family genealogy, including T. S. Eliot
Eliot's grave
Lyndall Gordon, Eliot's Early Years, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1977, ISBN 978-0-19-812078-0.
T. S. Eliot Profile, Poems, Essays at Poets.org
T. S. Eliot on Nobelprize.org
Filmography
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Movies 22
Writer 14
self 5
Narrator 1
Four Quartets (2022)
A Secret (2020)
Cats (2019)
T.S. Eliot: The Search for Happiness (2019)
What Happens to the Mountain (2016)
Till Human Voices Wake Us (2015)
Great Poets: In Their Own Words (2014)
The Turning (2013)
Love Flesh (2013)
The Mind and Times of Virginia Woolf (2002)
Cats (1998)
The Waste Land (1995)
Thames Film (1986)
Ashes (1975)
Der Familientag (1965)
Die Cocktailparty (1964)
Der Privatsekretär (1963)
Mord im Dom (1962)
The Cocktail Party (1952)
Murder in the Cathedral (1951)
Voices & Visions: T.S. Eliot
Voices & Visions: T.S. Eliot
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GenderMale
Birthday1888-09-26
Deathday1965-01-04 (76 years old)
Birth NameThomas Stearns Eliot
Birth PlaceSt. Louis, United States of America
LifestyleMysticism
ReligionUnitarianism
Height
RelationshipsVivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot (1915-01-01 - 1947-01-01), Valerie Eliot (1957-01-10 - 1965-01-04)
FatherHenry Ware Eliot
MotherCharlotte Champe Stearns
SiblingsAda Eliot, Margaret Dawes Eliot, Charlotte Eliot, Marian Cushing Eliot, Theodora Sterling Eliot, Henry Ware Eliot
CitizenshipsUnited States of America, United Kingdom
ResidencesSt. Louis · Missouri · Ash Street, United States of America
Also Known AsThomas Stearns Eliot, Thomas Eliot, Thomas S. Eliot, T. S. Eliot, TS Eliot, T S Eliot
AwardsPresidential Medal of Freedom, Nobel Prize in Literature, Order of Merit, Tony Award for Best Original Score, Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical, Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres, Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order, Emerson-Thoreau Medal, Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Musical, Officer of the Legion of Honour
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