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[Poetry] may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves. —Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations (7146 ) T.S.
T.S. Eliot (Thomas Stearns Eliot), 1888–1965, American-British poet and critic, b. St. Louis, Mo. One of the most distinguished literary figures of the 20th cent., T. S. Eliot won the 1948 Nobel Prize in Literature. He studied at Harvard, the Sorbonne, and Oxford. In 1914 he established residence in London and in 1927 became a British subject. After working as a teacher and a bank clerk he began a publishing career; he was assistant editor of the Egoist (1917–19) and edited his own quarterly, the Criterion (1922–39). In 1925 he was employed by the publishing house of Faber and Faber, eventually becoming one of its directors.—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia Pronunciation: The American Heritage®
WORKS
Prufrock
and Other Observations
This collection of poems contains one of Eliot’s first and most well-known poems, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.
Poems
Collection of twelve poems written by T.S. Eliot in 1920, including Lune de Miel, The Hippopotamus and Mr. Eliot’s Sunday Morning Service.
The Waste Land
Perhaps Eliot’s most famous piece, this controversial poem details the journey of the human soul searching for redemption.
The Sacred Wood
A collection of essays on poetry and criticism, including the famous “Hamlet and His Problems.”
4994 , 7143 , 7144 , 7145 , 7146 , 7360 , 8524 , 9030 , 9031 , 9032 , 9161
Entries from Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations.
Eliot, T.S., 18641 to 19019
Entries from the Columbia World of Quotations.
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