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John Buchan

2012-01-03T19:59:59Z

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John Buchan was born in 1875 in Perth (Scotland) and died in 1940 in Montreal (Canada). He was a famous writer, editor, historian and politician. John Buchan was born in eastern Scotland as the son of a young Free Kirk (church) minister, John Buchan and Helen Jane Buchan.

== His Literary Work ==
As a writer John Buchan published more than 100 books, of which 40 are fiction. His work consists of thrillers, seven collections of short stories, historical novels, biographies and historical studies. Although the two latter ones are regarded as classics of scholarship, John Buchan has always been best known for his thrillers. It was especially his war thrillers that were well conceived due to the reality of the war at that time. Buchan’s writing can be described as expressing an atmosphere of expectancy and a conception of conspiracies or old magic. The characters in this environment are mostly romantic but they do not appear ridiculous.

== Selected Works ==
His first important success was the publication of the thriller ''The Thirty-Nine Steps'' in 1915.
In this thriller a peaceful person named Richard Hannay gets accidentally involved into an adventure
and even has to face the police hunting him down. The story thus reveals a disorder and evilness
in the society and in a way it questions the power of civilization. Although The ''Thirty-Nine Steps''
is a pure thriller, it also contains some elements of a detective story like the finding of a dead body
or hidden clues. It can thus be called a spy thriller or a detective thriller.
Due to the success of this thriller, John Buchan became “the seller” of thrillers for the following 20 years.
Besides, the story of ''The Thirty-Nine Steps'' was adapted in 3 films (1935, 1958, and 1978) of which the first one
was produced by Alfred Hitchcock. After the publication of ''The Thirty-Nine Steps'' a series of Richard Hannay novels
followed, including the further very famous thriller ''The Greenmantle'' (1916). John Buchan also worked as
the editor of ''The Spectator'' (1903-1906) and as a war correspondent for ''The Times'' (1915).
He contributed to collections of discussions and commentaries.

== Political Career ==
Apart from his success as a writer John Buchan was actively engaged in politics. He was amongst others the Director of Intelligence (1918). In 1935 he was created Baron Tweedsmuir of Elsfield due to his office as the Governor-General of Canada. While taking office John Buchan represented the Crown and was thus like the King entitled to be kept fully informed. John Buchan officiated in this position until 1937. Due to his political engagement and many travels John Buchan had many political links, for example to the US-American President Roosevelt.
John Buchan died in 1940 in Canada.

== Sources ==

Daniell, David (Ed.). ''The Best Short Stories of John Buchan''. London: Panther Books, 1985.

John Buchan Society. Ed. David Crackanthorpe. 2010. 3 Jan. 2012. <http://www.johnbuchansociety.co.uk/index.html>

Smith, Janet Adam. ''John Buchan. A Biography.'' Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985.

John Buchan

2012-01-03T19:59:06Z

Jaspeigj: /* Selected Works */

John Buchan was born in 1875 in Perth (Scotland) and died in 1940 in Montreal (Canada). He was a famous writer, editor, historian and politician. John Buchan was born in eastern Scotland as the son of a young Free Kirk (church) minister, John Buchan and Helen Jane Buchan.

== His Literary Work ==
As a writer John Buchan published more than 100 books, of which 40 are fiction. His work consists of thrillers, seven collections of short stories, historical novels, biographies and historical studies. Although the two latter ones are regarded as classics of scholarship, John Buchan has always been best known for his thrillers. It was especially his war thrillers that were well conceived due to the reality of the war at that time. Buchan’s writing can be described as expressing an atmosphere of expectancy and a conception of conspiracies or old magic. The characters in this environment are mostly romantic but they do not appear ridiculous.

== Selected Works ==
His first important success was the publication of the thriller ''The Thirty-Nine Steps'' in 1915.
In this thriller a peaceful person named Richard Hannay gets accidentally involved into an adventure
and even has to face the police hunting him down. The story thus reveals a disorder and evilness
in the society and in a way it questions the power of civilization. Although The ''Thirty-Nine Steps''
is a pure thriller, it also contains some elements of a detective story like the finding of a dead body
or hidden clues. It can thus be called a spy thriller or a detective thriller.
Due to the success of this thriller, John Buchan became “the seller” of thrillers for the following 20 years.
Besides, the story of ''The Thirty-Nine Steps'' was adapted in 3 films (1935, 1958, and 1978) of which the first one
was produced by Alfred Hitchcock. After the publication of ''The Thirty-Nine Steps'' a series of Richard Hannay novels
followed, including the further very famous thriller ''The Greenmantle'' (1916). John Buchan also worked as
the editor of ''The Spectator'' (1903-1906) and as a war correspondent for ''The Times'' (1915).
He contributed to collections of discussions and commentaries.

== Political Career ==
Apart from his success as a writer John Buchan was actively engaged in politics. He was amongst others the Director of Intelligence (1918). In 1935 he was created Baron Tweedsmuir of Elsfield due to his office as the Governor-General of Canada. While taking office John Buchan represented the Crown and was thus like the King entitled to be kept fully informed. John Buchan officiated in this position until 1937. Due to his political engagement and many travels John Buchan had many political links, for example to the US-American President Roosevelt.
John Buchan died in 1940 in Canada.

== Sources ==

Daniell, David (Ed.). ''The Best Short Stories of John Buchan''. London: Panther Books, 1985.
John Buchan Society. Ed. David Crackanthorpe. 2010. 3 Jan. 2012. <http://www.johnbuchansociety.co.uk/index.html>
Smith, Janet Adam. ''John Buchan. A Biography.'' Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985.

John Buchan

2012-01-03T19:58:23Z

Jaspeigj: /* Selected Works */

John Buchan was born in 1875 in Perth (Scotland) and died in 1940 in Montreal (Canada). He was a famous writer, editor, historian and politician. John Buchan was born in eastern Scotland as the son of a young Free Kirk (church) minister, John Buchan and Helen Jane Buchan.

== His Literary Work ==
As a writer John Buchan published more than 100 books, of which 40 are fiction. His work consists of thrillers, seven collections of short stories, historical novels, biographies and historical studies. Although the two latter ones are regarded as classics of scholarship, John Buchan has always been best known for his thrillers. It was especially his war thrillers that were well conceived due to the reality of the war at that time. Buchan’s writing can be described as expressing an atmosphere of expectancy and a conception of conspiracies or old magic. The characters in this environment are mostly romantic but they do not appear ridiculous.

== Selected Works ==
His first important success was the publication of the thriller ''The Thirty-Nine Steps'' in 1915.
In this thriller a peaceful person named Richard Hannay gets accidentally involved into an adventure
and even has to face the police hunting him down. The story thus reveals a disorder and evilness
in the society and in a way it questions the power of civilization. Although The ''Thirty-Nine Steps''
is a pure thriller, it also contains some elements of a detective story like the finding of a dead body
or hidden clues. It can thus be called a spy thriller or a detective thriller.
Due to the success of this thriller, John Buchan became “the seller” of thrillers for the following 20 years.
Besides, the story of ''The Thirty-Nine Steps'' was adapted in 3 films (1935, 1958, and 1978) of which the first one
was produced by Alfred Hitchcock. After the publication of ''The Thirty-Nine Steps'' a series of Richard Hannay novels
followed, including the further very famous thriller ''The Greenmantle'' (1916). John Buchan also worked as
the editor of ''The Spectator'' (1903-1906) and as a war correspondent for ''The Times'' (1915).
He contributed to collections of discussions and commentaries.

== Political Career ==
Apart from his success as a writer John Buchan was actively engaged in politics. He was amongst others the Director of Intelligence (1918). In 1935 he was created Baron Tweedsmuir of Elsfield due to his office as the Governor-General of Canada. While taking office John Buchan represented the Crown and was thus like the King entitled to be kept fully informed. John Buchan officiated in this position until 1937. Due to his political engagement and many travels John Buchan had many political links, for example to the US-American President Roosevelt.
John Buchan died in 1940 in Canada.

== Sources ==

Daniell, David (Ed.). ''The Best Short Stories of John Buchan''. London: Panther Books, 1985.
John Buchan Society. Ed. David Crackanthorpe. 2010. 3 Jan. 2012. <http://www.johnbuchansociety.co.uk/index.html>
Smith, Janet Adam. ''John Buchan. A Biography.'' Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985.

John Buchan

2012-01-03T19:56:07Z

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John Buchan was born in 1875 in Perth (Scotland) and died in 1940 in Montreal (Canada). He was a famous writer, editor, historian and politician. John Buchan was born in eastern Scotland as the son of a young Free Kirk (church) minister, John Buchan and Helen Jane Buchan.

== His Literary Work ==
As a writer John Buchan published more than 100 books, of which 40 are fiction. His work consists of thrillers, seven collections of short stories, historical novels, biographies and historical studies. Although the two latter ones are regarded as classics of scholarship, John Buchan has always been best known for his thrillers. It was especially his war thrillers that were well conceived due to the reality of the war at that time. Buchan’s writing can be described as expressing an atmosphere of expectancy and a conception of conspiracies or old magic. The characters in this environment are mostly romantic but they do not appear ridiculous.

== Selected Works ==
His first important success was the publication of the thriller ''The Thirty-Nine Steps'' in 1915. In this thriller a peaceful person named Richard Hannay gets accidentally involved into an adventure and even has to face the police hunting him down. The story thus reveals a disorder and evilness in the society and in a way it questions the power of civilization. Although The ''Thirty-Nine Steps'' is a pure thriller, it also contains some elements of a detective story like the finding of a dead body or hidden clues. It can thus be called a spy thriller or a detective thriller. Due to the success of this thriller, John Buchan became “the seller” of thrillers for the following 20 years. Besides, the story of ''The Thirty-Nine Steps'' was adapted in 3 films (1935, 1958, and 1978) of which the first one was produced by Alfred Hitchcock. After the publication of ''The Thirty-Nine Steps'' a series of Richard Hannay novels followed, including the further very famous thriller ''The Greenmantle'' (1916). John Buchan also worked as the editor of ''The Spectator'' (1903-1906) and as a war correspondent for ''The Times'' (1915). He contributed to collections of discussions and commentaries.

== Political Career ==
Apart from his success as a writer John Buchan was actively engaged in politics. He was amongst others the Director of Intelligence (1918). In 1935 he was created Baron Tweedsmuir of Elsfield due to his office as the Governor-General of Canada. While taking office John Buchan represented the Crown and was thus like the King entitled to be kept fully informed. John Buchan officiated in this position until 1937. Due to his political engagement and many travels John Buchan had many political links, for example to the US-American President Roosevelt.
John Buchan died in 1940 in Canada.

== Sources ==

Daniell, David (Ed.). ''The Best Short Stories of John Buchan''. London: Panther Books, 1985.
John Buchan Society. Ed. David Crackanthorpe. 2010. 3 Jan. 2012. <http://www.johnbuchansociety.co.uk/index.html>
Smith, Janet Adam. ''John Buchan. A Biography.'' Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985.

T. S. Eliot

2011-12-14T16:01:19Z

Jaspeigj: /* Works */

26 September 1888 (St Louis, USA) – 4 January 1965 (London). Poet, playwright, critic, editor.

=== Childhood ===
Thomas Stearnes Eliot was born in St Louis, Missouri, as the youngest of seven children. His father Henry Ware Eliot was originally from England. He was a businessman and at the time of T.S. Eliot’s birth he had recovered from a financial failure and was succeeding in business. The family was thus prosperous. His mother was Charlotte Champe Eliot, a former teacher who wrote poems. It was her who influenced T.S. Eliot most and who directed him towards literary culture. The relation to his father is often described as reserved due to the fact that Henry Ware Eliot was already growing deaf when Eliot was born. However, his connection in general to the family has often been described as very close.

=== Education ===
Until he was sixteen, T.S. Eliot attended Smith Academy in St Louis. In his last year there, he wrote short stories about the 1904 St Louis World’s Fair (an international exposition) which had impressed him much. These were published in in the Smith Academy Record.
In 1905 Eliot departed for one year at the Milton Academy which was outside of Boston. This served as a preparation for his attending of Harvard. From 1906 to 1910 Eliot was an undergraduate student there and he obtained a BA in comparative literature and then a Master in English literature in the fourth year. In 1910 he went to the Sorbonne at Paris for one year before he came back to Harvard to study philosophy as a graduate student and to begin his doctoral thesis on F.H. Bradley. In 1914 he again left Harvard for Oxford and later London.

=== Life and Career ===
Having settled down in England Eliot started working as a teacher and later for Lloyd’s Bank. He married Vivienne Haigh-Wood, a dancer, in 1915. His parents were shocked by this decision, and the marriage nearly caused a break between them. However, the marriage also marked Eliot’s beginning of an English life, taking his life in literary London.
It was Ezra Pound among Eliot’s contemporaries who recognized Eliot’s poetic talent. In 1922 Eliot published ''[[The Waste Land]]'' which made his reputation grow and which is today still considered as one of the most influential poetic works of the twentieth century. In 1927 Eliot took British citizenship. By 1930 and the next 30 years Eliot was an important figure in poetry and literary criticism in the English-speaking world. Apart from his poetic work Eliot also became recognized as a playwright. In 1933 Eliot separated from his wife. He was given the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948. Eliot married Valerie Fletcher in 1956 and attained a degree of contentedness. He died in 1965 in London.

=== Works ===

In his work Eliot transmuted his affinity for English metaphysical poets of the seventeenth century and for French symbolist poets from the nineteenth century into enormous innovations in his poetic technique and subject matter.
The poems express a "disillusionment of a younger post-World-War-I generation with the values and conventions—both literary and social—of the Victorian era" (Academy of American Poets).
In his criticism of poetry Eliot articulates a conception that demonstrates continuity with the thought of Romantic criticism and aesthetics. His central ideas also originate in idealist epistemology. Idealist epistemology is a position representing the idea that knowledge and personal thoughts do only exist in the individual's mind. T.S. Eliot's views were mostly based on the basis of a social and religious conservatism.

==== Selected Bibliography of his Works ====

===== Poetry =====
''Prufrock and Other Observations'' (1917)

''Poems'' (1919)

''The Waste Land'' (1922)

''Poems, 1909-1925'' (1925)

''Ash Wednesday'' (1930)

''East Coker'' (1940)

''Burnt Norton'' (1941)

''The Dry Salvages'' (1941)

''Four Quartets'' (1943)

''The Complete Poems and Plays'' (1952)

''Collected Poems'' (1962)

===== Prose/Essays =====
''The Sacred Wood'' (1920)

''Andrew Marvell'' (1922)

''For Lancelot Andrews'' (1928)

''Dante'' (1929)

''Tradition and Experimentation in Present-Day Literature'' (1929)

''Thoughts After Lambeth'' (1931)

''John Dryden'' (1932)

''After Strange Gods'' (1933)

''The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism'' (1933)

''Elizabethan Essays'' (1934)

''Essays Ancient and Modern'' (1936)

''The Idea of a Christian Society'' (1940)

''The Classics and The Man of Letters'' (1942)

''Notes Towards the Definition of Culture'' (1949)

''Poetry and Drama'' (1951)

''Religious Drama: Mediaeval and Modern'' (1954)

''The Three Voices of Poetry'' (1954)

===== Drama =====
''Sweeney Agonistes'' (1932)

''The Rock'' (1934)

''Murder in the Cathedral'' (1935)

''The Family Reunion'' (1939)

''The Cocktail Party'' (1950)

''The Confidential Clerk'' (1953)

''The Elder Statesman'' (1958)

=== Sources ===
Ackroyd, Peter. ''T.S. Eliot''. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1984.

Allan, Mowbray. ''T.S. Eliot's Impersonal Theory of Poetry''. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 1974.

''Modern American Poetry''.Ed. Nelson, Cary and Bartholomew Brinkman. 2011. Department of English, University of Illionois. <www. illinois.edu/maps/index.htm>

''Academy of American Poets''. 2011. <http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/18>

T. S. Eliot

2011-12-14T16:00:58Z

Jaspeigj: /* Works */

26 September 1888 (St Louis, USA) – 4 January 1965 (London). Poet, playwright, critic, editor.

=== Childhood ===
Thomas Stearnes Eliot was born in St Louis, Missouri, as the youngest of seven children. His father Henry Ware Eliot was originally from England. He was a businessman and at the time of T.S. Eliot’s birth he had recovered from a financial failure and was succeeding in business. The family was thus prosperous. His mother was Charlotte Champe Eliot, a former teacher who wrote poems. It was her who influenced T.S. Eliot most and who directed him towards literary culture. The relation to his father is often described as reserved due to the fact that Henry Ware Eliot was already growing deaf when Eliot was born. However, his connection in general to the family has often been described as very close.

=== Education ===
Until he was sixteen, T.S. Eliot attended Smith Academy in St Louis. In his last year there, he wrote short stories about the 1904 St Louis World’s Fair (an international exposition) which had impressed him much. These were published in in the Smith Academy Record.
In 1905 Eliot departed for one year at the Milton Academy which was outside of Boston. This served as a preparation for his attending of Harvard. From 1906 to 1910 Eliot was an undergraduate student there and he obtained a BA in comparative literature and then a Master in English literature in the fourth year. In 1910 he went to the Sorbonne at Paris for one year before he came back to Harvard to study philosophy as a graduate student and to begin his doctoral thesis on F.H. Bradley. In 1914 he again left Harvard for Oxford and later London.

=== Life and Career ===
Having settled down in England Eliot started working as a teacher and later for Lloyd’s Bank. He married Vivienne Haigh-Wood, a dancer, in 1915. His parents were shocked by this decision, and the marriage nearly caused a break between them. However, the marriage also marked Eliot’s beginning of an English life, taking his life in literary London.
It was Ezra Pound among Eliot’s contemporaries who recognized Eliot’s poetic talent. In 1922 Eliot published ''[[The Waste Land]]'' which made his reputation grow and which is today still considered as one of the most influential poetic works of the twentieth century. In 1927 Eliot took British citizenship. By 1930 and the next 30 years Eliot was an important figure in poetry and literary criticism in the English-speaking world. Apart from his poetic work Eliot also became recognized as a playwright. In 1933 Eliot separated from his wife. He was given the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948. Eliot married Valerie Fletcher in 1956 and attained a degree of contentedness. He died in 1965 in London.

=== Works ===

In his work Eliot transmuted his affinity for English metaphysical poets of the seventeenth century and for French symbolist poets from the nineteenth century into enormous innovations in his poetic technique and subject matter.
The poems express a "disillusionment of a younger post-World-War-I generation with the values and conventions—both literary and social—of the Victorian era" (Academy of American poets).
In his criticism of poetry Eliot articulates a conception that demonstrates continuity with the thought of Romantic criticism and aesthetics. His central ideas also originate in idealist epistemology. Idealist epistemology is a position representing the idea that knowledge and personal thoughts do only exist in the individual's mind. T.S. Eliot's views were mostly based on the basis of a social and religious conservatism.

==== Selected Bibliography of his Works ====

===== Poetry =====
''Prufrock and Other Observations'' (1917)

''Poems'' (1919)

''The Waste Land'' (1922)

''Poems, 1909-1925'' (1925)

''Ash Wednesday'' (1930)

''East Coker'' (1940)

''Burnt Norton'' (1941)

''The Dry Salvages'' (1941)

''Four Quartets'' (1943)

''The Complete Poems and Plays'' (1952)

''Collected Poems'' (1962)

===== Prose/Essays =====
''The Sacred Wood'' (1920)

''Andrew Marvell'' (1922)

''For Lancelot Andrews'' (1928)

''Dante'' (1929)

''Tradition and Experimentation in Present-Day Literature'' (1929)

''Thoughts After Lambeth'' (1931)

''John Dryden'' (1932)

''After Strange Gods'' (1933)

''The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism'' (1933)

''Elizabethan Essays'' (1934)

''Essays Ancient and Modern'' (1936)

''The Idea of a Christian Society'' (1940)

''The Classics and The Man of Letters'' (1942)

''Notes Towards the Definition of Culture'' (1949)

''Poetry and Drama'' (1951)

''Religious Drama: Mediaeval and Modern'' (1954)

''The Three Voices of Poetry'' (1954)

===== Drama =====
''Sweeney Agonistes'' (1932)

''The Rock'' (1934)

''Murder in the Cathedral'' (1935)

''The Family Reunion'' (1939)

''The Cocktail Party'' (1950)

''The Confidential Clerk'' (1953)

''The Elder Statesman'' (1958)

=== Sources ===
Ackroyd, Peter. ''T.S. Eliot''. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1984.

Allan, Mowbray. ''T.S. Eliot's Impersonal Theory of Poetry''. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 1974.

''Modern American Poetry''.Ed. Nelson, Cary and Bartholomew Brinkman. 2011. Department of English, University of Illionois. <www. illinois.edu/maps/index.htm>

''Academy of American Poets''. 2011. <http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/18>

T. S. Eliot

2011-12-14T16:00:16Z

Jaspeigj: /* Works */

26 September 1888 (St Louis, USA) – 4 January 1965 (London). Poet, playwright, critic, editor.

=== Childhood ===
Thomas Stearnes Eliot was born in St Louis, Missouri, as the youngest of seven children. His father Henry Ware Eliot was originally from England. He was a businessman and at the time of T.S. Eliot’s birth he had recovered from a financial failure and was succeeding in business. The family was thus prosperous. His mother was Charlotte Champe Eliot, a former teacher who wrote poems. It was her who influenced T.S. Eliot most and who directed him towards literary culture. The relation to his father is often described as reserved due to the fact that Henry Ware Eliot was already growing deaf when Eliot was born. However, his connection in general to the family has often been described as very close.

=== Education ===
Until he was sixteen, T.S. Eliot attended Smith Academy in St Louis. In his last year there, he wrote short stories about the 1904 St Louis World’s Fair (an international exposition) which had impressed him much. These were published in in the Smith Academy Record.
In 1905 Eliot departed for one year at the Milton Academy which was outside of Boston. This served as a preparation for his attending of Harvard. From 1906 to 1910 Eliot was an undergraduate student there and he obtained a BA in comparative literature and then a Master in English literature in the fourth year. In 1910 he went to the Sorbonne at Paris for one year before he came back to Harvard to study philosophy as a graduate student and to begin his doctoral thesis on F.H. Bradley. In 1914 he again left Harvard for Oxford and later London.

=== Life and Career ===
Having settled down in England Eliot started working as a teacher and later for Lloyd’s Bank. He married Vivienne Haigh-Wood, a dancer, in 1915. His parents were shocked by this decision, and the marriage nearly caused a break between them. However, the marriage also marked Eliot’s beginning of an English life, taking his life in literary London.
It was Ezra Pound among Eliot’s contemporaries who recognized Eliot’s poetic talent. In 1922 Eliot published ''[[The Waste Land]]'' which made his reputation grow and which is today still considered as one of the most influential poetic works of the twentieth century. In 1927 Eliot took British citizenship. By 1930 and the next 30 years Eliot was an important figure in poetry and literary criticism in the English-speaking world. Apart from his poetic work Eliot also became recognized as a playwright. In 1933 Eliot separated from his wife. He was given the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948. Eliot married Valerie Fletcher in 1956 and attained a degree of contentedness. He died in 1965 in London.

=== Works ===

In his work Eliot transmuted his affinity for English metaphysical poets of the seventeenth century and for French symbolist poets from the nineteenth century into enormous innovations in his poetic technique and subject matter.
The poems express a "disillusionment of a younger post-World-War-I generation with the values and conventions—both literary and social—of the Victorian era" (wwww.poets.org).
In his criticism of poetry Eliot articulates a conception that demonstrates continuity with the thought of Romantic criticism and aesthetics. His central ideas also originate in idealist epistemology. Idealist epistemology is a position representing the idea that knowledge and personal thoughts do only exist in the individual's mind. T.S. Eliot's views were mostly based on the basis of a social and religious conservatism.

==== Selected Bibliography of his Works ====

===== Poetry =====
''Prufrock and Other Observations'' (1917)

''Poems'' (1919)

''The Waste Land'' (1922)

''Poems, 1909-1925'' (1925)

''Ash Wednesday'' (1930)

''East Coker'' (1940)

''Burnt Norton'' (1941)

''The Dry Salvages'' (1941)

''Four Quartets'' (1943)

''The Complete Poems and Plays'' (1952)

''Collected Poems'' (1962)

===== Prose/Essays =====
''The Sacred Wood'' (1920)

''Andrew Marvell'' (1922)

''For Lancelot Andrews'' (1928)

''Dante'' (1929)

''Tradition and Experimentation in Present-Day Literature'' (1929)

''Thoughts After Lambeth'' (1931)

''John Dryden'' (1932)

''After Strange Gods'' (1933)

''The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism'' (1933)

''Elizabethan Essays'' (1934)

''Essays Ancient and Modern'' (1936)

''The Idea of a Christian Society'' (1940)

''The Classics and The Man of Letters'' (1942)

''Notes Towards the Definition of Culture'' (1949)

''Poetry and Drama'' (1951)

''Religious Drama: Mediaeval and Modern'' (1954)

''The Three Voices of Poetry'' (1954)

===== Drama =====
''Sweeney Agonistes'' (1932)

''The Rock'' (1934)

''Murder in the Cathedral'' (1935)

''The Family Reunion'' (1939)

''The Cocktail Party'' (1950)

''The Confidential Clerk'' (1953)

''The Elder Statesman'' (1958)

=== Sources ===
Ackroyd, Peter. ''T.S. Eliot''. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1984.

Allan, Mowbray. ''T.S. Eliot's Impersonal Theory of Poetry''. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 1974.

''Modern American Poetry''.Ed. Nelson, Cary and Bartholomew Brinkman. 2011. Department of English, University of Illionois. <www. illinois.edu/maps/index.htm>

''Academy of American Poets''. 2011. <http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/18>

T. S. Eliot

2011-12-14T15:58:20Z

Jaspeigj: /* Works */

26 September 1888 (St Louis, USA) – 4 January 1965 (London). Poet, playwright, critic, editor.

=== Childhood ===
Thomas Stearnes Eliot was born in St Louis, Missouri, as the youngest of seven children. His father Henry Ware Eliot was originally from England. He was a businessman and at the time of T.S. Eliot’s birth he had recovered from a financial failure and was succeeding in business. The family was thus prosperous. His mother was Charlotte Champe Eliot, a former teacher who wrote poems. It was her who influenced T.S. Eliot most and who directed him towards literary culture. The relation to his father is often described as reserved due to the fact that Henry Ware Eliot was already growing deaf when Eliot was born. However, his connection in general to the family has often been described as very close.

=== Education ===
Until he was sixteen, T.S. Eliot attended Smith Academy in St Louis. In his last year there, he wrote short stories about the 1904 St Louis World’s Fair (an international exposition) which had impressed him much. These were published in in the Smith Academy Record.
In 1905 Eliot departed for one year at the Milton Academy which was outside of Boston. This served as a preparation for his attending of Harvard. From 1906 to 1910 Eliot was an undergraduate student there and he obtained a BA in comparative literature and then a Master in English literature in the fourth year. In 1910 he went to the Sorbonne at Paris for one year before he came back to Harvard to study philosophy as a graduate student and to begin his doctoral thesis on F.H. Bradley. In 1914 he again left Harvard for Oxford and later London.

=== Life and Career ===
Having settled down in England Eliot started working as a teacher and later for Lloyd’s Bank. He married Vivienne Haigh-Wood, a dancer, in 1915. His parents were shocked by this decision, and the marriage nearly caused a break between them. However, the marriage also marked Eliot’s beginning of an English life, taking his life in literary London.
It was Ezra Pound among Eliot’s contemporaries who recognized Eliot’s poetic talent. In 1922 Eliot published ''[[The Waste Land]]'' which made his reputation grow and which is today still considered as one of the most influential poetic works of the twentieth century. In 1927 Eliot took British citizenship. By 1930 and the next 30 years Eliot was an important figure in poetry and literary criticism in the English-speaking world. Apart from his poetic work Eliot also became recognized as a playwright. In 1933 Eliot separated from his wife. He was given the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948. Eliot married Valerie Fletcher in 1956 and attained a degree of contentedness. He died in 1965 in London.

=== Works ===

In his work Eliot transmuted his affinity for English metaphysical poets of the seventeenth century and for French symbolist poets from the nineteenth century into enormous innovations in his poetic technique and subject matter.
The poems express a "disillusionment of a younger post-World-War-I generation with the values and conventions—both literary and social—of the Victorian era" (wwww.poets.org).
In his criticism of poetry Eliot articulates a conception that demonstrates continuity with the thought of Romantic criticism and aesthetics. His central ideas also originate in idealist epistemology. The idealist epistemology is a position representing the idea that knowledge and personal thoughts do only exist in the individual's mind. T.S. Eliot's views were mostly based on the basis of a social and religious conservatism.

==== Selected Bibliography of his Works ====

===== Poetry =====
''Prufrock and Other Observations'' (1917)

''Poems'' (1919)

''The Waste Land'' (1922)

''Poems, 1909-1925'' (1925)

''Ash Wednesday'' (1930)

''East Coker'' (1940)

''Burnt Norton'' (1941)

''The Dry Salvages'' (1941)

''Four Quartets'' (1943)

''The Complete Poems and Plays'' (1952)

''Collected Poems'' (1962)

===== Prose/Essays =====
''The Sacred Wood'' (1920)

''Andrew Marvell'' (1922)

''For Lancelot Andrews'' (1928)

''Dante'' (1929)

''Tradition and Experimentation in Present-Day Literature'' (1929)

''Thoughts After Lambeth'' (1931)

''John Dryden'' (1932)

''After Strange Gods'' (1933)

''The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism'' (1933)

''Elizabethan Essays'' (1934)

''Essays Ancient and Modern'' (1936)

''The Idea of a Christian Society'' (1940)

''The Classics and The Man of Letters'' (1942)

''Notes Towards the Definition of Culture'' (1949)

''Poetry and Drama'' (1951)

''Religious Drama: Mediaeval and Modern'' (1954)

''The Three Voices of Poetry'' (1954)

===== Drama =====
''Sweeney Agonistes'' (1932)

''The Rock'' (1934)

''Murder in the Cathedral'' (1935)

''The Family Reunion'' (1939)

''The Cocktail Party'' (1950)

''The Confidential Clerk'' (1953)

''The Elder Statesman'' (1958)

=== Sources ===
Ackroyd, Peter. ''T.S. Eliot''. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1984.

Allan, Mowbray. ''T.S. Eliot's Impersonal Theory of Poetry''. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 1974.

''Modern American Poetry''.Ed. Nelson, Cary and Bartholomew Brinkman. 2011. Department of English, University of Illionois. <www. illinois.edu/maps/index.htm>

''Academy of American Poets''. 2011. <http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/18>

T. S. Eliot

2011-12-13T18:59:55Z

Jaspeigj: /* Life and Career */

26 September 1888 (St Louis, USA) – 4 January 1965 (London). Poet, playwright, critic, editor.

=== Childhood ===
Thomas Stearnes Eliot was born in St Louis, Missouri, as the youngest of seven children. His father Henry Ware Eliot was originally from England. He was a businessman and at the time of T.S. Eliot’s birth he had recovered from a financial failure and was succeeding in business. The family was thus prosperous. His mother was Charlotte Champe Eliot, a former teacher who wrote poems. It was her who influenced T.S. Eliot most and who directed him towards literary culture. The relation to his father is often described as reserved due to the fact that Henry Ware Eliot was already growing deaf when Eliot was born. However, his connection in general to the family has often been described as very close.

=== Education ===
Until he was sixteen, T.S. Eliot attended Smith Academy in St Louis. In his last year there, he wrote short stories about the 1904 St Louis World’s Fair (an international exposition) which had impressed him much. These were published in in the Smith Academy Record.
In 1905 Eliot departed for one year at the Milton Academy which was outside of Boston. This served as a preparation for his attending of Harvard. From 1906 to 1910 Eliot was an undergraduate student there and he obtained a BA in comparative literature and then a Master in English literature in the fourth year. In 1910 he went to the Sorbonne at Paris for one year before he came back to Harvard to study philosophy as a graduate student and to begin his doctoral thesis on F.H. Bradley. In 1914 he again left Harvard for Oxford and later London.

=== Life and Career ===
Having settled down in England Eliot started working as a teacher and later for Lloyd’s Bank. He married Vivienne Haigh-Wood, a dancer, in 1915. His parents were shocked by this decision, and the marriage nearly caused a break between them. However, the marriage also marked Eliot’s beginning of an English life, taking his life in literary London.
It was Ezra Pound among Eliot’s contemporaries who recognized Eliot’s poetic talent. In 1922 Eliot published ''[[The Waste Land]]'' which made his reputation grow and which is today still considered as one of the most influential poetic works of the twentieth century. In 1927 Eliot took British citizenship. By 1930 and the next 30 years Eliot was an important figure in poetry and literary criticism in the English-speaking world. Apart from his poetic work Eliot also became recognized as a playwright. In 1933 Eliot separated from his wife. He was given the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948. Eliot married Valerie Fletcher in 1956 and attained a degree of contentedness. He died in 1965 in London.

=== Works ===

In his work Eliot transmuted his affinity for English metaphysical poets of the seventeenth century and for French symbolist poets from the nineteenth century into enormous innovations in his poetic technique and subject matter. The poems in particular express a disillusionment of a younger post-World-War I generation with the values and conventions of the Victorian era.
In his criticism of poetry Eliot articulates a conception that demonstrates continuity with the thought of Romantic criticism and aesthetics. His central ideas also originate in idealist epistemology. The idealist epistemology is a position representing the idea that knowledge and personal thoughts do only exist in the individual's mind. T.S. Eliot's views were mostly based on the basis of a social and religious conservatism.

==== Selected Bibliography of his Works ====

===== Poetry =====
''Prufrock and Other Observations'' (1917)

''Poems'' (1919)

''The Waste Land'' (1922)

''Poems, 1909-1925'' (1925)

''Ash Wednesday'' (1930)

''East Coker'' (1940)

''Burnt Norton'' (1941)

''The Dry Salvages'' (1941)

''Four Quartets'' (1943)

''The Complete Poems and Plays'' (1952)

''Collected Poems'' (1962)

===== Prose/Essays =====
''The Sacred Wood'' (1920)

''Andrew Marvell'' (1922)

''For Lancelot Andrews'' (1928)

''Dante'' (1929)

''Tradition and Experimentation in Present-Day Literature'' (1929)

''Thoughts After Lambeth'' (1931)

''John Dryden'' (1932)

''After Strange Gods'' (1933)

''The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism'' (1933)

''Elizabethan Essays'' (1934)

''Essays Ancient and Modern'' (1936)

''The Idea of a Christian Society'' (1940)

''The Classics and The Man of Letters'' (1942)

''Notes Towards the Definition of Culture'' (1949)

''Poetry and Drama'' (1951)

''Religious Drama: Mediaeval and Modern'' (1954)

''The Three Voices of Poetry'' (1954)

===== Drama =====
''Sweeney Agonistes'' (1932)

''The Rock'' (1934)

''Murder in the Cathedral'' (1935)

''The Family Reunion'' (1939)

''The Cocktail Party'' (1950)

''The Confidential Clerk'' (1953)

''The Elder Statesman'' (1958)

=== Sources ===
Ackroyd, Peter. ''T.S. Eliot''. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1984.

Allan, Mowbray. ''T.S. Eliot's Impersonal Theory of Poetry''. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 1974.

''Modern American Poetry''.Ed. Nelson, Cary and Bartholomew Brinkman. 2011. Department of English, University of Illionois. <www. illinois.edu/maps/index.htm>

''Academy of American Poets''. 2011. <http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/18>

T. S. Eliot

2011-12-13T18:35:31Z

Jaspeigj: /* Works */

26 September 1888 (St Louis, USA) – 4 January 1965 (London). Poet, playwright, critic, editor.

=== Childhood ===
Thomas Stearnes Eliot was born in St Louis, Missouri, as the youngest of seven children. His father Henry Ware Eliot was originally from England. He was a businessman and at the time of T.S. Eliot’s birth he had recovered from a financial failure and was succeeding in business. The family was thus prosperous. His mother was Charlotte Champe Eliot, a former teacher who wrote poems. It was her who influenced T.S. Eliot most and who directed him towards literary culture. The relation to his father is often described as reserved due to the fact that Henry Ware Eliot was already growing deaf when Eliot was born. However, his connection in general to the family has often been described as very close.

=== Education ===
Until he was sixteen, T.S. Eliot attended Smith Academy in St Louis. In his last year there, he wrote short stories about the 1904 St Louis World’s Fair (an international exposition) which had impressed him much. These were published in in the Smith Academy Record.
In 1905 Eliot departed for one year at the Milton Academy which was outside of Boston. This served as a preparation for his attending of Harvard. From 1906 to 1910 Eliot was an undergraduate student there and he obtained a BA in comparative literature and then a Master in English literature in the fourth year. In 1910 he went to the Sorbonne at Paris for one year before he came back to Harvard to study philosophy as a graduate student and to begin his doctoral thesis on F.H. Bradley. In 1914 he again left Harvard for Oxford and later London.

=== Life and Career ===
Having settled down in England Eliot started working as a teacher and later for Lloyd’s Bank. He married Vivienne Haigh-Wood, a dancer, in 1915. His parents were shocked by this decision, and the marriage nearly caused a break between them. However, the marriage also marked Eliot’s beginning of an English life, taking his life in literary London.
It was Ezra Pound among Eliot’s contemporaries who recognized Eliot’s poetic talent. In 1922 Eliot published ''[[The Waste Land]]'' which made his reputation grow and which is today still considered as one of the most influential poetic works of the twentieth century. In 1927 Eliot took British citizenship and by doing that he caused a furor [why?]. By 1930 and the next 30 years Eliot was an important figure in poetry and literary criticism in the English-speaking world. Apart from his poetic work Eliot also became recognized as a playwright. In 1933 Eliot separated from his wife. He was given the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948. Eliot married Valerie Fletcher in 1956 and attained a degree of contentedness. He died in 1965 in London.

=== Works ===

In his work Eliot transmuted his affinity for English metaphysical poets of the seventeenth century and for French symbolist poets from the nineteenth century into enormous innovations in his poetic technique and subject matter. The poems in particular express a disillusionment of a younger post-World-War I generation with the values and conventions of the Victorian era.
In his criticism of poetry Eliot articulates a conception that demonstrates continuity with the thought of Romantic criticism and aesthetics. His central ideas also originate in idealist epistemology. The idealist epistemology is a position representing the idea that knowledge and personal thoughts do only exist in the individual's mind. T.S. Eliot's views were mostly based on the basis of a social and religious conservatism.

==== Selected Bibliography of his Works ====

===== Poetry =====
''Prufrock and Other Observations'' (1917)

''Poems'' (1919)

''The Waste Land'' (1922)

''Poems, 1909-1925'' (1925)

''Ash Wednesday'' (1930)

''East Coker'' (1940)

''Burnt Norton'' (1941)

''The Dry Salvages'' (1941)

''Four Quartets'' (1943)

''The Complete Poems and Plays'' (1952)

''Collected Poems'' (1962)

===== Prose/Essays =====
''The Sacred Wood'' (1920)

''Andrew Marvell'' (1922)

''For Lancelot Andrews'' (1928)

''Dante'' (1929)

''Tradition and Experimentation in Present-Day Literature'' (1929)

''Thoughts After Lambeth'' (1931)

''John Dryden'' (1932)

''After Strange Gods'' (1933)

''The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism'' (1933)

''Elizabethan Essays'' (1934)

''Essays Ancient and Modern'' (1936)

''The Idea of a Christian Society'' (1940)

''The Classics and The Man of Letters'' (1942)

''Notes Towards the Definition of Culture'' (1949)

''Poetry and Drama'' (1951)

''Religious Drama: Mediaeval and Modern'' (1954)

''The Three Voices of Poetry'' (1954)

===== Drama =====
''Sweeney Agonistes'' (1932)

''The Rock'' (1934)

''Murder in the Cathedral'' (1935)

''The Family Reunion'' (1939)

''The Cocktail Party'' (1950)

''The Confidential Clerk'' (1953)

''The Elder Statesman'' (1958)

=== Sources ===
Ackroyd, Peter. ''T.S. Eliot''. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1984.

Allan, Mowbray. ''T.S. Eliot's Impersonal Theory of Poetry''. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 1974.

''Modern American Poetry''.Ed. Nelson, Cary and Bartholomew Brinkman. 2011. Department of English, University of Illionois. <www. illinois.edu/maps/index.htm>

''Academy of American Poets''. 2011. <http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/18>

T. S. Eliot

2011-12-13T18:35:03Z

Jaspeigj:

26 September 1888 (St Louis, USA) – 4 January 1965 (London). Poet, playwright, critic, editor.

=== Childhood ===
Thomas Stearnes Eliot was born in St Louis, Missouri, as the youngest of seven children. His father Henry Ware Eliot was originally from England. He was a businessman and at the time of T.S. Eliot’s birth he had recovered from a financial failure and was succeeding in business. The family was thus prosperous. His mother was Charlotte Champe Eliot, a former teacher who wrote poems. It was her who influenced T.S. Eliot most and who directed him towards literary culture. The relation to his father is often described as reserved due to the fact that Henry Ware Eliot was already growing deaf when Eliot was born. However, his connection in general to the family has often been described as very close.

=== Education ===
Until he was sixteen, T.S. Eliot attended Smith Academy in St Louis. In his last year there, he wrote short stories about the 1904 St Louis World’s Fair (an international exposition) which had impressed him much. These were published in in the Smith Academy Record.
In 1905 Eliot departed for one year at the Milton Academy which was outside of Boston. This served as a preparation for his attending of Harvard. From 1906 to 1910 Eliot was an undergraduate student there and he obtained a BA in comparative literature and then a Master in English literature in the fourth year. In 1910 he went to the Sorbonne at Paris for one year before he came back to Harvard to study philosophy as a graduate student and to begin his doctoral thesis on F.H. Bradley. In 1914 he again left Harvard for Oxford and later London.

=== Life and Career ===
Having settled down in England Eliot started working as a teacher and later for Lloyd’s Bank. He married Vivienne Haigh-Wood, a dancer, in 1915. His parents were shocked by this decision, and the marriage nearly caused a break between them. However, the marriage also marked Eliot’s beginning of an English life, taking his life in literary London.
It was Ezra Pound among Eliot’s contemporaries who recognized Eliot’s poetic talent. In 1922 Eliot published ''[[The Waste Land]]'' which made his reputation grow and which is today still considered as one of the most influential poetic works of the twentieth century. In 1927 Eliot took British citizenship and by doing that he caused a furor [why?]. By 1930 and the next 30 years Eliot was an important figure in poetry and literary criticism in the English-speaking world. Apart from his poetic work Eliot also became recognized as a playwright. In 1933 Eliot separated from his wife. He was given the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948. Eliot married Valerie Fletcher in 1956 and attained a degree of contentedness. He died in 1965 in London.

=== Works ===

In his work Eliot transmuted his affinity for English metaphysical poets of the seventeenth century and for French symbolist poets from the nineteenth century into enormous innovations in his poetic technique and subject matter. The poems in particular express a disillusionment of a younger post-World-War I generation with the values and conventions of the Victorian era.
In his criticism of poetry Eliot articulates a conception that demonstrates continuity with the thought of Romantic criticism and aesthetics. His central ideas also originate in idealist epistemology [what does this mean?]. The idealist epistemology is a position representing the idea that knowledge and personal thoughts do only exist in the individual's mind. T.S. Eliot's views were mostly based on the basis of a social and religious conservatism.

==== Selected Bibliography of his Works ====

===== Poetry =====
''Prufrock and Other Observations'' (1917)

''Poems'' (1919)

''The Waste Land'' (1922)

''Poems, 1909-1925'' (1925)

''Ash Wednesday'' (1930)

''East Coker'' (1940)

''Burnt Norton'' (1941)

''The Dry Salvages'' (1941)

''Four Quartets'' (1943)

''The Complete Poems and Plays'' (1952)

''Collected Poems'' (1962)

===== Prose/Essays =====
''The Sacred Wood'' (1920)

''Andrew Marvell'' (1922)

''For Lancelot Andrews'' (1928)

''Dante'' (1929)

''Tradition and Experimentation in Present-Day Literature'' (1929)

''Thoughts After Lambeth'' (1931)

''John Dryden'' (1932)

''After Strange Gods'' (1933)

''The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism'' (1933)

''Elizabethan Essays'' (1934)

''Essays Ancient and Modern'' (1936)

''The Idea of a Christian Society'' (1940)

''The Classics and The Man of Letters'' (1942)

''Notes Towards the Definition of Culture'' (1949)

''Poetry and Drama'' (1951)

''Religious Drama: Mediaeval and Modern'' (1954)

''The Three Voices of Poetry'' (1954)

===== Drama =====
''Sweeney Agonistes'' (1932)

''The Rock'' (1934)

''Murder in the Cathedral'' (1935)

''The Family Reunion'' (1939)

''The Cocktail Party'' (1950)

''The Confidential Clerk'' (1953)

''The Elder Statesman'' (1958)

=== Sources ===
Ackroyd, Peter. ''T.S. Eliot''. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1984.

Allan, Mowbray. ''T.S. Eliot's Impersonal Theory of Poetry''. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 1974.

''Modern American Poetry''.Ed. Nelson, Cary and Bartholomew Brinkman. 2011. Department of English, University of Illionois. <www. illinois.edu/maps/index.htm>

''Academy of American Poets''. 2011. <http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/18>

T. S. Eliot

2011-11-18T08:04:57Z

Jaspeigj: /* Life and Career */

Thomas Sterns Eliot, a poet, playwright, critic, editor (26 Sept. 1888, St. Louis, USA – 4 Jan. 1965, London).

=== Childhood ===
T.S. Eliot was born in St Louis, Missouri, as the youngest of seven children. His father Henry Ware Eliot was originally from England. He was a businessman and at the time of T.S. Eliot’s birth he had recovered from a financial failure and was succeeding in business. The family was thus prosperous. His mother was Charlotte Champe Eliot, a former teacher who wrote poems. It was her who influenced T.S. Eliot most and who directed him towards the literary culture. The relation to his father is often described as reserved due to the fact that Henry Ware Eliot was already growing deaf when Eliot was born. However, his connection in general to the family has often been described as very close.

=== Education ===
Until he was sixteen, T.S. Eliot attended Smith Academy in St. Louis. In his last year there, he wrote short stories about the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair (an international exposition) which had impressed him much. These were published in in the Smith Academy Record.
In 1905 Eliot departed for one year at the Milton Academy which was outside of Boston. This served as a preparation for his attending of Harvard. From 1906 to 1910 Eliot was an undergraduate student there and he attained a BA in comparative literature and then a Master in English literature in the fourth year. In 1910 he went to the Sorbonne University at Paris for one year before he came back to Harvard to study philosophy as a graduate student and to begin his doctoral thesis on F.H. Bradley. In 1914 he again left Harvard for London.

=== Life and Career ===
Having settled down in England Eliot started working as a teacher and later for Lloyd’s Bank. He married Vivienne Haigh-Wood, a dancer, in 1915. His parents were shocked by this decision, and the marriage nearly caused a break between them. However, the marriage also marked Eliot’s beginning of an English life, taking his life in literary London.
It was Ezra Pound among Eliot’s contemporaries who recognized Eliot’s poetic genius. In 1922 Eliot published ''[[The Waste Land]]'' which made his reputation grow and which is today still considered as the most influential poetic work of the twentieth century. In 1927 Eliot took British citizenship and by doing that he caused a furor. By 1930 and the next 30 years Eliot was the most dominant figure in poetry and literary criticism in the English speaking world. As a critic, he had a great influence on the contemporary literary taste. Apart from his poetic work Eliot also became recognized as a playwright. In 1933 Eliot separated from his wife. He was given the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948. Eliot remarried to Valerie Fletcher in 1956 and attained a degree of contentedness. He died in 1965 in London.

=== Works ===

In his work Eliot transmuted his affinity for English metaphysical poets of the seventeenth century and for French symbolist poets from the nineteenth century into enormous innovations in his poetic technique and subject matter. The poems in particular express a disillusionment of a younger post-World-War I-generation with the values and conventions of the Victorian era.
In his criticism of poetry Eliot articulates a conception that demonstrates continuity with the thought of Romantic criticism and aesthetics. His central ideas also originate in idealist epistemology. His views were mostly based on the basis of a social and religious conservatism.

==== Selected Bibliography of his Works ====

===== Poetry =====
''Prufrock and Other Observations'' (1917)

''Poems'' (1919)

''The Waste Land'' (1922)

''Poems, 1909-1925'' (1925)

''Ash Wednesday'' (1930)

''East Coker'' (1940)

''Burnt Norton'' (1941)

''The Dry Salvages'' (1941)

''Four Quartets'' (1943)

''The Complete Poems and Plays'' (1952)

''Collected Poems'' (1962)

===== Prose =====
''The Sacred Wood'' (1920)

''Andrew Marvell'' (1922)

''For Lancelot Andrews'' (1928)

''Dante'' (1929)

''Tradition and Experimentation in Present-Day Literature'' (1929)

''Thoughts After Lambeth'' (1931)

''John Dryden'' (1932)

''After Strange Gods'' (1933)

''The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism'' (1933)

''Elizabethan Essays'' (1934)

''Essays Ancient and Modern'' (1936)

''The Idea of a Christian Society'' (1940)

''The Classics and The Man of Letters'' (1942)

''Notes Towards the Definition of Culture'' (1949)

''Poetry and Drama'' (1951)

''Religious Drama: Mediaeval and Modern'' (1954)

''The Three Voices of Poetry'' (1954)

===== Drama =====
''Sweeney Agonistes'' (1932)

''The Rock'' (1934)

''Murder in the Cathedral'' (1935)

''The Family Reunion'' (1939)

''The Cocktail Party'' (1950)

''The Confidential Clerk'' (1953)

''The Elder Statesman'' (1958)

=== Sources ===
Ackroyd, Peter. ''T.S. Eliot''. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1984.

Allan, Mowbray. ''T.S. Eliot's Impersonal Theory of Poetry''. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 1974.

''Modern American Poetry''.Ed. Nelson, Cary and Bartholomew Brinkman. 2011. Department of English, University of Illionois. <www. illinois.edu/maps/index.htm>

''Academy of American Poets''. 2011. <http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/18>

T. S. Eliot

2011-11-18T08:00:59Z

Jaspeigj: /* A Selected Bibliography of his works */

Thomas Sterns Eliot, a poet, playwright, critic, editor (26 Sept. 1888, St. Louis, USA – 4 Jan. 1965, London).

=== Childhood ===
T.S. Eliot was born in St Louis, Missouri, as the youngest of seven children. His father Henry Ware Eliot was originally from England. He was a businessman and at the time of T.S. Eliot’s birth he had recovered from a financial failure and was succeeding in business. The family was thus prosperous. His mother was Charlotte Champe Eliot, a former teacher who wrote poems. It was her who influenced T.S. Eliot most and who directed him towards the literary culture. The relation to his father is often described as reserved due to the fact that Henry Ware Eliot was already growing deaf when Eliot was born. However, his connection in general to the family has often been described as very close.

=== Education ===
Until he was sixteen, T.S. Eliot attended Smith Academy in St. Louis. In his last year there, he wrote short stories about the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair (an international exposition) which had impressed him much. These were published in in the Smith Academy Record.
In 1905 Eliot departed for one year at the Milton Academy which was outside of Boston. This served as a preparation for his attending of Harvard. From 1906 to 1910 Eliot was an undergraduate student there and he attained a BA in comparative literature and then a Master in English literature in the fourth year. In 1910 he went to the Sorbonne University at Paris for one year before he came back to Harvard to study philosophy as a graduate student and to begin his doctoral thesis on F.H. Bradley. In 1914 he again left Harvard for London.

=== Life and Career ===
Having settled down in England Eliot started working as a teacher and later for Lloyd’s Bank. He married Vivienne Haigh-Wood, a dancer, in 1915. His parents were shocked by this decision, and the marriage nearly caused a break between them. However, the marriage also marked Eliot’s beginning of an English life, taking his life in literary London.
It was Ezra Pound among Eliot’s contemporaries who recognized Eliot’s poetic genius. In 1922 Eliot published ''The Waste Land'' which made his reputation grow and which is today still considered as the most influential poetic work of the twentieth century. In 1927 Eliot took British citizenship and by doing that he caused a furor. By 1930 and the next 30 years Eliot was the most dominant figure in poetry and literary criticism in the English speaking world. As a critic, he had a great influence on the contemporary literary taste. Apart from his poetic work Eliot also became recognized as a playwright. In 1933 Eliot separated from his wife. He was given the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948. Eliot remarried to Valerie Fletcher in 1956 and attained a degree of contentedness. He died in 1965 in London.

=== Works ===

In his work Eliot transmuted his affinity for English metaphysical poets of the seventeenth century and for French symbolist poets from the nineteenth century into enormous innovations in his poetic technique and subject matter. The poems in particular express a disillusionment of a younger post-World-War I-generation with the values and conventions of the Victorian era.
In his criticism of poetry Eliot articulates a conception that demonstrates continuity with the thought of Romantic criticism and aesthetics. His central ideas also originate in idealist epistemology. His views were mostly based on the basis of a social and religious conservatism.

==== Selected Bibliography of his Works ====

===== Poetry =====
''Prufrock and Other Observations'' (1917)

''Poems'' (1919)

''The Waste Land'' (1922)

''Poems, 1909-1925'' (1925)

''Ash Wednesday'' (1930)

''East Coker'' (1940)

''Burnt Norton'' (1941)

''The Dry Salvages'' (1941)

''Four Quartets'' (1943)

''The Complete Poems and Plays'' (1952)

''Collected Poems'' (1962)

===== Prose =====
''The Sacred Wood'' (1920)

''Andrew Marvell'' (1922)

''For Lancelot Andrews'' (1928)

''Dante'' (1929)

''Tradition and Experimentation in Present-Day Literature'' (1929)

''Thoughts After Lambeth'' (1931)

''John Dryden'' (1932)

''After Strange Gods'' (1933)

''The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism'' (1933)

''Elizabethan Essays'' (1934)

''Essays Ancient and Modern'' (1936)

''The Idea of a Christian Society'' (1940)

''The Classics and The Man of Letters'' (1942)

''Notes Towards the Definition of Culture'' (1949)

''Poetry and Drama'' (1951)

''Religious Drama: Mediaeval and Modern'' (1954)

''The Three Voices of Poetry'' (1954)

===== Drama =====
''Sweeney Agonistes'' (1932)

''The Rock'' (1934)

''Murder in the Cathedral'' (1935)

''The Family Reunion'' (1939)

''The Cocktail Party'' (1950)

''The Confidential Clerk'' (1953)

''The Elder Statesman'' (1958)

=== Sources ===
Ackroyd, Peter. ''T.S. Eliot''. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1984.

Allan, Mowbray. ''T.S. Eliot's Impersonal Theory of Poetry''. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 1974.

''Modern American Poetry''.Ed. Nelson, Cary and Bartholomew Brinkman. 2011. Department of English, University of Illionois. <www. illinois.edu/maps/index.htm>

''Academy of American Poets''. 2011. <http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/18>

T. S. Eliot

2011-11-18T07:59:21Z

Jaspeigj: /* Sources: */

Thomas Sterns Eliot, a poet, playwright, critic, editor (26 Sept. 1888, St. Louis, USA – 4 Jan. 1965, London).

=== Childhood ===
T.S. Eliot was born in St Louis, Missouri, as the youngest of seven children. His father Henry Ware Eliot was originally from England. He was a businessman and at the time of T.S. Eliot’s birth he had recovered from a financial failure and was succeeding in business. The family was thus prosperous. His mother was Charlotte Champe Eliot, a former teacher who wrote poems. It was her who influenced T.S. Eliot most and who directed him towards the literary culture. The relation to his father is often described as reserved due to the fact that Henry Ware Eliot was already growing deaf when Eliot was born. However, his connection in general to the family has often been described as very close.

=== Education ===
Until he was sixteen, T.S. Eliot attended Smith Academy in St. Louis. In his last year there, he wrote short stories about the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair (an international exposition) which had impressed him much. These were published in in the Smith Academy Record.
In 1905 Eliot departed for one year at the Milton Academy which was outside of Boston. This served as a preparation for his attending of Harvard. From 1906 to 1910 Eliot was an undergraduate student there and he attained a BA in comparative literature and then a Master in English literature in the fourth year. In 1910 he went to the Sorbonne University at Paris for one year before he came back to Harvard to study philosophy as a graduate student and to begin his doctoral thesis on F.H. Bradley. In 1914 he again left Harvard for London.

=== Life and Career ===
Having settled down in England Eliot started working as a teacher and later for Lloyd’s Bank. He married Vivienne Haigh-Wood, a dancer, in 1915. His parents were shocked by this decision, and the marriage nearly caused a break between them. However, the marriage also marked Eliot’s beginning of an English life, taking his life in literary London.
It was Ezra Pound among Eliot’s contemporaries who recognized Eliot’s poetic genius. In 1922 Eliot published ''The Waste Land'' which made his reputation grow and which is today still considered as the most influential poetic work of the twentieth century. In 1927 Eliot took British citizenship and by doing that he caused a furor. By 1930 and the next 30 years Eliot was the most dominant figure in poetry and literary criticism in the English speaking world. As a critic, he had a great influence on the contemporary literary taste. Apart from his poetic work Eliot also became recognized as a playwright. In 1933 Eliot separated from his wife. He was given the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948. Eliot remarried to Valerie Fletcher in 1956 and attained a degree of contentedness. He died in 1965 in London.

=== Works ===

In his work Eliot transmuted his affinity for English metaphysical poets of the seventeenth century and for French symbolist poets from the nineteenth century into enormous innovations in his poetic technique and subject matter. The poems in particular express a disillusionment of a younger post-World-War I-generation with the values and conventions of the Victorian era.
In his criticism of poetry Eliot articulates a conception that demonstrates continuity with the thought of Romantic criticism and aesthetics. His central ideas also originate in idealist epistemology. His views were mostly based on the basis of a social and religious conservatism.

==== A Selected Bibliography of his works ====

===== Poetry =====
''Prufrock and Other Observations'' (1917)

''Poems'' (1919)

''The Waste Land'' (1922)

''Poems, 1909-1925'' (1925)

''Ash Wednesday'' (1930)

''East Coker'' (1940)

''Burnt Norton'' (1941)

''The Dry Salvages'' (1941)

''Four Quartets'' (1943)

''The Complete Poems and Plays'' (1952)

''Collected Poems'' (1962)

===== Prose =====
''The Sacred Wood'' (1920)

''Andrew Marvell'' (1922)

''For Lancelot Andrews'' (1928)

''Dante'' (1929)

''Tradition and Experimentation in Present-Day Literature'' (1929)

''Thoughts After Lambeth'' (1931)

''John Dryden'' (1932)

''After Strange Gods'' (1933)

''The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism'' (1933)

''Elizabethan Essays'' (1934)

''Essays Ancient and Modern'' (1936)

''The Idea of a Christian Society'' (1940)

''The Classics and The Man of Letters'' (1942)

''Notes Towards the Definition of Culture'' (1949)

''Poetry and Drama'' (1951)

''Religious Drama: Mediaeval and Modern'' (1954)

''The Three Voices of Poetry'' (1954)

===== Drama =====
''Sweeney Agonistes'' (1932)

''The Rock'' (1934)

''Murder in the Cathedral'' (1935)

''The Family Reunion'' (1939)

''The Cocktail Party'' (1950)

''The Confidential Clerk'' (1953)

''The Elder Statesman'' (1958)

=== Sources ===
Ackroyd, Peter. ''T.S. Eliot''. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1984.

Allan, Mowbray. ''T.S. Eliot's Impersonal Theory of Poetry''. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 1974.

''Modern American Poetry''.Ed. Nelson, Cary and Bartholomew Brinkman. 2011. Department of English, University of Illionois. <www. illinois.edu/maps/index.htm>

''Academy of American Poets''. 2011. <http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/18>

T. S. Eliot

2011-11-18T07:58:58Z

Jaspeigj: /* Sources: */

Thomas Sterns Eliot, a poet, playwright, critic, editor (26 Sept. 1888, St. Louis, USA – 4 Jan. 1965, London).

=== Childhood ===
T.S. Eliot was born in St Louis, Missouri, as the youngest of seven children. His father Henry Ware Eliot was originally from England. He was a businessman and at the time of T.S. Eliot’s birth he had recovered from a financial failure and was succeeding in business. The family was thus prosperous. His mother was Charlotte Champe Eliot, a former teacher who wrote poems. It was her who influenced T.S. Eliot most and who directed him towards the literary culture. The relation to his father is often described as reserved due to the fact that Henry Ware Eliot was already growing deaf when Eliot was born. However, his connection in general to the family has often been described as very close.

=== Education ===
Until he was sixteen, T.S. Eliot attended Smith Academy in St. Louis. In his last year there, he wrote short stories about the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair (an international exposition) which had impressed him much. These were published in in the Smith Academy Record.
In 1905 Eliot departed for one year at the Milton Academy which was outside of Boston. This served as a preparation for his attending of Harvard. From 1906 to 1910 Eliot was an undergraduate student there and he attained a BA in comparative literature and then a Master in English literature in the fourth year. In 1910 he went to the Sorbonne University at Paris for one year before he came back to Harvard to study philosophy as a graduate student and to begin his doctoral thesis on F.H. Bradley. In 1914 he again left Harvard for London.

=== Life and Career ===
Having settled down in England Eliot started working as a teacher and later for Lloyd’s Bank. He married Vivienne Haigh-Wood, a dancer, in 1915. His parents were shocked by this decision, and the marriage nearly caused a break between them. However, the marriage also marked Eliot’s beginning of an English life, taking his life in literary London.
It was Ezra Pound among Eliot’s contemporaries who recognized Eliot’s poetic genius. In 1922 Eliot published ''The Waste Land'' which made his reputation grow and which is today still considered as the most influential poetic work of the twentieth century. In 1927 Eliot took British citizenship and by doing that he caused a furor. By 1930 and the next 30 years Eliot was the most dominant figure in poetry and literary criticism in the English speaking world. As a critic, he had a great influence on the contemporary literary taste. Apart from his poetic work Eliot also became recognized as a playwright. In 1933 Eliot separated from his wife. He was given the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948. Eliot remarried to Valerie Fletcher in 1956 and attained a degree of contentedness. He died in 1965 in London.

=== Works ===

In his work Eliot transmuted his affinity for English metaphysical poets of the seventeenth century and for French symbolist poets from the nineteenth century into enormous innovations in his poetic technique and subject matter. The poems in particular express a disillusionment of a younger post-World-War I-generation with the values and conventions of the Victorian era.
In his criticism of poetry Eliot articulates a conception that demonstrates continuity with the thought of Romantic criticism and aesthetics. His central ideas also originate in idealist epistemology. His views were mostly based on the basis of a social and religious conservatism.

==== A Selected Bibliography of his works ====

===== Poetry =====
''Prufrock and Other Observations'' (1917)

''Poems'' (1919)

''The Waste Land'' (1922)

''Poems, 1909-1925'' (1925)

''Ash Wednesday'' (1930)

''East Coker'' (1940)

''Burnt Norton'' (1941)

''The Dry Salvages'' (1941)

''Four Quartets'' (1943)

''The Complete Poems and Plays'' (1952)

''Collected Poems'' (1962)

===== Prose =====
''The Sacred Wood'' (1920)

''Andrew Marvell'' (1922)

''For Lancelot Andrews'' (1928)

''Dante'' (1929)

''Tradition and Experimentation in Present-Day Literature'' (1929)

''Thoughts After Lambeth'' (1931)

''John Dryden'' (1932)

''After Strange Gods'' (1933)

''The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism'' (1933)

''Elizabethan Essays'' (1934)

''Essays Ancient and Modern'' (1936)

''The Idea of a Christian Society'' (1940)

''The Classics and The Man of Letters'' (1942)

''Notes Towards the Definition of Culture'' (1949)

''Poetry and Drama'' (1951)

''Religious Drama: Mediaeval and Modern'' (1954)

''The Three Voices of Poetry'' (1954)

===== Drama =====
''Sweeney Agonistes'' (1932)

''The Rock'' (1934)

''Murder in the Cathedral'' (1935)

''The Family Reunion'' (1939)

''The Cocktail Party'' (1950)

''The Confidential Clerk'' (1953)

''The Elder Statesman'' (1958)

=== Sources: ===
Ackroyd, Peter. ''T.S. Eliot''. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1984.

Allan, Mowbray. ''T.S. Eliot's Impersonal Theory of Poetry''. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 1974.

''Modern American Poetry''.Ed. Nelson, Cary and Bartholomew Brinkman. 2011. Department of English, University of Illionois. <www. illinois.edu/maps/index.htm>

''Academy of American Poets''. 2011. <http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/18>

T. S. Eliot

2011-11-18T07:57:54Z

Jaspeigj: /* His Work */

Thomas Sterns Eliot, a poet, playwright, critic, editor (26 Sept. 1888, St. Louis, USA – 4 Jan. 1965, London).

=== Childhood ===
T.S. Eliot was born in St Louis, Missouri, as the youngest of seven children. His father Henry Ware Eliot was originally from England. He was a businessman and at the time of T.S. Eliot’s birth he had recovered from a financial failure and was succeeding in business. The family was thus prosperous. His mother was Charlotte Champe Eliot, a former teacher who wrote poems. It was her who influenced T.S. Eliot most and who directed him towards the literary culture. The relation to his father is often described as reserved due to the fact that Henry Ware Eliot was already growing deaf when Eliot was born. However, his connection in general to the family has often been described as very close.

=== Education ===
Until he was sixteen, T.S. Eliot attended Smith Academy in St. Louis. In his last year there, he wrote short stories about the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair (an international exposition) which had impressed him much. These were published in in the Smith Academy Record.
In 1905 Eliot departed for one year at the Milton Academy which was outside of Boston. This served as a preparation for his attending of Harvard. From 1906 to 1910 Eliot was an undergraduate student there and he attained a BA in comparative literature and then a Master in English literature in the fourth year. In 1910 he went to the Sorbonne University at Paris for one year before he came back to Harvard to study philosophy as a graduate student and to begin his doctoral thesis on F.H. Bradley. In 1914 he again left Harvard for London.

=== Life and Career ===
Having settled down in England Eliot started working as a teacher and later for Lloyd’s Bank. He married Vivienne Haigh-Wood, a dancer, in 1915. His parents were shocked by this decision, and the marriage nearly caused a break between them. However, the marriage also marked Eliot’s beginning of an English life, taking his life in literary London.
It was Ezra Pound among Eliot’s contemporaries who recognized Eliot’s poetic genius. In 1922 Eliot published ''The Waste Land'' which made his reputation grow and which is today still considered as the most influential poetic work of the twentieth century. In 1927 Eliot took British citizenship and by doing that he caused a furor. By 1930 and the next 30 years Eliot was the most dominant figure in poetry and literary criticism in the English speaking world. As a critic, he had a great influence on the contemporary literary taste. Apart from his poetic work Eliot also became recognized as a playwright. In 1933 Eliot separated from his wife. He was given the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948. Eliot remarried to Valerie Fletcher in 1956 and attained a degree of contentedness. He died in 1965 in London.

=== Works ===

In his work Eliot transmuted his affinity for English metaphysical poets of the seventeenth century and for French symbolist poets from the nineteenth century into enormous innovations in his poetic technique and subject matter. The poems in particular express a disillusionment of a younger post-World-War I-generation with the values and conventions of the Victorian era.
In his criticism of poetry Eliot articulates a conception that demonstrates continuity with the thought of Romantic criticism and aesthetics. His central ideas also originate in idealist epistemology. His views were mostly based on the basis of a social and religious conservatism.

==== A Selected Bibliography of his works ====

===== Poetry =====
''Prufrock and Other Observations'' (1917)

''Poems'' (1919)

''The Waste Land'' (1922)

''Poems, 1909-1925'' (1925)

''Ash Wednesday'' (1930)

''East Coker'' (1940)

''Burnt Norton'' (1941)

''The Dry Salvages'' (1941)

''Four Quartets'' (1943)

''The Complete Poems and Plays'' (1952)

''Collected Poems'' (1962)

===== Prose =====
''The Sacred Wood'' (1920)

''Andrew Marvell'' (1922)

''For Lancelot Andrews'' (1928)

''Dante'' (1929)

''Tradition and Experimentation in Present-Day Literature'' (1929)

''Thoughts After Lambeth'' (1931)

''John Dryden'' (1932)

''After Strange Gods'' (1933)

''The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism'' (1933)

''Elizabethan Essays'' (1934)

''Essays Ancient and Modern'' (1936)

''The Idea of a Christian Society'' (1940)

''The Classics and The Man of Letters'' (1942)

''Notes Towards the Definition of Culture'' (1949)

''Poetry and Drama'' (1951)

''Religious Drama: Mediaeval and Modern'' (1954)

''The Three Voices of Poetry'' (1954)

===== Drama =====
''Sweeney Agonistes'' (1932)

''The Rock'' (1934)

''Murder in the Cathedral'' (1935)

''The Family Reunion'' (1939)

''The Cocktail Party'' (1950)

''The Confidential Clerk'' (1953)

''The Elder Statesman'' (1958)

=== Sources: ===
Ackroyd, Peter. ''T.S. Eliot''. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1984.

Allan, Mowbray. ''T.S. Eliot's Impersonal Theory of Poetry''. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 1974.

''Modern American Poetry''.Ed. Nelson, Cary and Bartholomew Brinkman. 2011. Department of English, University of Illionois. <www. illinois.edu/maps/index.htm>

''Academy of American Poets''. 2011. <http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/18>

T. S. Eliot

2011-11-18T07:57:37Z

Jaspeigj: /* His Life and Career */

Thomas Sterns Eliot, a poet, playwright, critic, editor (26 Sept. 1888, St. Louis, USA – 4 Jan. 1965, London).

=== Childhood ===
T.S. Eliot was born in St Louis, Missouri, as the youngest of seven children. His father Henry Ware Eliot was originally from England. He was a businessman and at the time of T.S. Eliot’s birth he had recovered from a financial failure and was succeeding in business. The family was thus prosperous. His mother was Charlotte Champe Eliot, a former teacher who wrote poems. It was her who influenced T.S. Eliot most and who directed him towards the literary culture. The relation to his father is often described as reserved due to the fact that Henry Ware Eliot was already growing deaf when Eliot was born. However, his connection in general to the family has often been described as very close.

=== Education ===
Until he was sixteen, T.S. Eliot attended Smith Academy in St. Louis. In his last year there, he wrote short stories about the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair (an international exposition) which had impressed him much. These were published in in the Smith Academy Record.
In 1905 Eliot departed for one year at the Milton Academy which was outside of Boston. This served as a preparation for his attending of Harvard. From 1906 to 1910 Eliot was an undergraduate student there and he attained a BA in comparative literature and then a Master in English literature in the fourth year. In 1910 he went to the Sorbonne University at Paris for one year before he came back to Harvard to study philosophy as a graduate student and to begin his doctoral thesis on F.H. Bradley. In 1914 he again left Harvard for London.

=== Life and Career ===
Having settled down in England Eliot started working as a teacher and later for Lloyd’s Bank. He married Vivienne Haigh-Wood, a dancer, in 1915. His parents were shocked by this decision, and the marriage nearly caused a break between them. However, the marriage also marked Eliot’s beginning of an English life, taking his life in literary London.
It was Ezra Pound among Eliot’s contemporaries who recognized Eliot’s poetic genius. In 1922 Eliot published ''The Waste Land'' which made his reputation grow and which is today still considered as the most influential poetic work of the twentieth century. In 1927 Eliot took British citizenship and by doing that he caused a furor. By 1930 and the next 30 years Eliot was the most dominant figure in poetry and literary criticism in the English speaking world. As a critic, he had a great influence on the contemporary literary taste. Apart from his poetic work Eliot also became recognized as a playwright. In 1933 Eliot separated from his wife. He was given the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948. Eliot remarried to Valerie Fletcher in 1956 and attained a degree of contentedness. He died in 1965 in London.

=== His Work ===

In his work Eliot transmuted his affinity for English metaphysical poets of the seventeenth century and for French symbolist poets from the nineteenth century into enormous innovations in his poetic technique and subject matter. The poems in particular express a disillusionment of a younger post-World-War I-generation with the values and conventions of the Victorian era.
In his criticism of poetry Eliot articulates a conception that demonstrates continuity with the thought of Romantic criticism and aesthetics. His central ideas also originate in idealist epistemology. His views were mostly based on the basis of a social and religious conservatism.

==== A Selected Bibliography of his works ====

===== Poetry =====
''Prufrock and Other Observations'' (1917)

''Poems'' (1919)

''The Waste Land'' (1922)

''Poems, 1909-1925'' (1925)

''Ash Wednesday'' (1930)

''East Coker'' (1940)

''Burnt Norton'' (1941)

''The Dry Salvages'' (1941)

''Four Quartets'' (1943)

''The Complete Poems and Plays'' (1952)

''Collected Poems'' (1962)

===== Prose =====
''The Sacred Wood'' (1920)

''Andrew Marvell'' (1922)

''For Lancelot Andrews'' (1928)

''Dante'' (1929)

''Tradition and Experimentation in Present-Day Literature'' (1929)

''Thoughts After Lambeth'' (1931)

''John Dryden'' (1932)

''After Strange Gods'' (1933)

''The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism'' (1933)

''Elizabethan Essays'' (1934)

''Essays Ancient and Modern'' (1936)

''The Idea of a Christian Society'' (1940)

''The Classics and The Man of Letters'' (1942)

''Notes Towards the Definition of Culture'' (1949)

''Poetry and Drama'' (1951)

''Religious Drama: Mediaeval and Modern'' (1954)

''The Three Voices of Poetry'' (1954)

===== Drama =====
''Sweeney Agonistes'' (1932)

''The Rock'' (1934)

''Murder in the Cathedral'' (1935)

''The Family Reunion'' (1939)

''The Cocktail Party'' (1950)

''The Confidential Clerk'' (1953)

''The Elder Statesman'' (1958)

=== Sources: ===
Ackroyd, Peter. ''T.S. Eliot''. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1984.

Allan, Mowbray. ''T.S. Eliot's Impersonal Theory of Poetry''. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 1974.

''Modern American Poetry''.Ed. Nelson, Cary and Bartholomew Brinkman. 2011. Department of English, University of Illionois. <www. illinois.edu/maps/index.htm>

''Academy of American Poets''. 2011. <http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/18>

T. S. Eliot

2011-11-18T07:56:52Z

Jaspeigj: /* His Work */

Thomas Sterns Eliot, a poet, playwright, critic, editor (26 Sept. 1888, St. Louis, USA – 4 Jan. 1965, London).

=== Childhood ===
T.S. Eliot was born in St Louis, Missouri, as the youngest of seven children. His father Henry Ware Eliot was originally from England. He was a businessman and at the time of T.S. Eliot’s birth he had recovered from a financial failure and was succeeding in business. The family was thus prosperous. His mother was Charlotte Champe Eliot, a former teacher who wrote poems. It was her who influenced T.S. Eliot most and who directed him towards the literary culture. The relation to his father is often described as reserved due to the fact that Henry Ware Eliot was already growing deaf when Eliot was born. However, his connection in general to the family has often been described as very close.

=== Education ===
Until he was sixteen, T.S. Eliot attended Smith Academy in St. Louis. In his last year there, he wrote short stories about the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair (an international exposition) which had impressed him much. These were published in in the Smith Academy Record.
In 1905 Eliot departed for one year at the Milton Academy which was outside of Boston. This served as a preparation for his attending of Harvard. From 1906 to 1910 Eliot was an undergraduate student there and he attained a BA in comparative literature and then a Master in English literature in the fourth year. In 1910 he went to the Sorbonne University at Paris for one year before he came back to Harvard to study philosophy as a graduate student and to begin his doctoral thesis on F.H. Bradley. In 1914 he again left Harvard for London.

=== His Life and Career ===
Having settled down in England Eliot started working as a teacher and later for Lloyd’s Bank. He married Vivienne Haigh-Wood, a dancer, in 1915. His parents were shocked by this decision, and the marriage nearly caused a break between them. However, the marriage also marked Eliot’s beginning of an English life, taking his life in literary London.
It was Ezra Pound among Eliot’s contemporaries who recognized Eliot’s poetic genius. In 1922 Eliot published ''The Waste Land'' which made his reputation grow and which is today still considered as the most influential poetic work of the twentieth century. In 1927 Eliot took British citizenship and by doing that he caused a furor. By 1930 and the next 30 years Eliot was the most dominant figure in poetry and literary criticism in the English speaking world. As a critic, he had a great influence on the contemporary literary taste. Apart from his poetic work Eliot also became recognized as a playwright. In 1933 Eliot separated from his wife. He was given the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948. Eliot remarried to Valerie Fletcher in 1956 and attained a degree of contentedness. He died in 1965 in London.

=== His Work ===

In his work Eliot transmuted his affinity for English metaphysical poets of the seventeenth century and for French symbolist poets from the nineteenth century into enormous innovations in his poetic technique and subject matter. The poems in particular express a disillusionment of a younger post-World-War I-generation with the values and conventions of the Victorian era.
In his criticism of poetry Eliot articulates a conception that demonstrates continuity with the thought of Romantic criticism and aesthetics. His central ideas also originate in idealist epistemology. His views were mostly based on the basis of a social and religious conservatism.

==== A Selected Bibliography of his works ====

===== Poetry =====
''Prufrock and Other Observations'' (1917)

''Poems'' (1919)

''The Waste Land'' (1922)

''Poems, 1909-1925'' (1925)

''Ash Wednesday'' (1930)

''East Coker'' (1940)

''Burnt Norton'' (1941)

''The Dry Salvages'' (1941)

''Four Quartets'' (1943)

''The Complete Poems and Plays'' (1952)

''Collected Poems'' (1962)

===== Prose =====
''The Sacred Wood'' (1920)

''Andrew Marvell'' (1922)

''For Lancelot Andrews'' (1928)

''Dante'' (1929)

''Tradition and Experimentation in Present-Day Literature'' (1929)

''Thoughts After Lambeth'' (1931)

''John Dryden'' (1932)

''After Strange Gods'' (1933)

''The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism'' (1933)

''Elizabethan Essays'' (1934)

''Essays Ancient and Modern'' (1936)

''The Idea of a Christian Society'' (1940)

''The Classics and The Man of Letters'' (1942)

''Notes Towards the Definition of Culture'' (1949)

''Poetry and Drama'' (1951)

''Religious Drama: Mediaeval and Modern'' (1954)

''The Three Voices of Poetry'' (1954)

===== Drama =====
''Sweeney Agonistes'' (1932)

''The Rock'' (1934)

''Murder in the Cathedral'' (1935)

''The Family Reunion'' (1939)

''The Cocktail Party'' (1950)

''The Confidential Clerk'' (1953)

''The Elder Statesman'' (1958)

=== Sources: ===
Ackroyd, Peter. ''T.S. Eliot''. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1984.

Allan, Mowbray. ''T.S. Eliot's Impersonal Theory of Poetry''. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 1974.

''Modern American Poetry''.Ed. Nelson, Cary and Bartholomew Brinkman. 2011. Department of English, University of Illionois. <www. illinois.edu/maps/index.htm>

''Academy of American Poets''. 2011. <http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/18>

T. S. Eliot

2011-11-18T07:55:05Z

Jaspeigj: /* His life and career */

Thomas Sterns Eliot, a poet, playwright, critic, editor (26 Sept. 1888, St. Louis, USA – 4 Jan. 1965, London).

=== Childhood ===
T.S. Eliot was born in St Louis, Missouri, as the youngest of seven children. His father Henry Ware Eliot was originally from England. He was a businessman and at the time of T.S. Eliot’s birth he had recovered from a financial failure and was succeeding in business. The family was thus prosperous. His mother was Charlotte Champe Eliot, a former teacher who wrote poems. It was her who influenced T.S. Eliot most and who directed him towards the literary culture. The relation to his father is often described as reserved due to the fact that Henry Ware Eliot was already growing deaf when Eliot was born. However, his connection in general to the family has often been described as very close.

=== Education ===
Until he was sixteen, T.S. Eliot attended Smith Academy in St. Louis. In his last year there, he wrote short stories about the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair (an international exposition) which had impressed him much. These were published in in the Smith Academy Record.
In 1905 Eliot departed for one year at the Milton Academy which was outside of Boston. This served as a preparation for his attending of Harvard. From 1906 to 1910 Eliot was an undergraduate student there and he attained a BA in comparative literature and then a Master in English literature in the fourth year. In 1910 he went to the Sorbonne University at Paris for one year before he came back to Harvard to study philosophy as a graduate student and to begin his doctoral thesis on F.H. Bradley. In 1914 he again left Harvard for London.

=== His Life and Career ===
Having settled down in England Eliot started working as a teacher and later for Lloyd’s Bank. He married Vivienne Haigh-Wood, a dancer, in 1915. His parents were shocked by this decision, and the marriage nearly caused a break between them. However, the marriage also marked Eliot’s beginning of an English life, taking his life in literary London.
It was Ezra Pound among Eliot’s contemporaries who recognized Eliot’s poetic genius. In 1922 Eliot published ''The Waste Land'' which made his reputation grow and which is today still considered as the most influential poetic work of the twentieth century. In 1927 Eliot took British citizenship and by doing that he caused a furor. By 1930 and the next 30 years Eliot was the most dominant figure in poetry and literary criticism in the English speaking world. As a critic, he had a great influence on the contemporary literary taste. Apart from his poetic work Eliot also became recognized as a playwright. In 1933 Eliot separated from his wife. He was given the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948. Eliot remarried to Valerie Fletcher in 1956 and attained a degree of contentedness. He died in 1965 in London.

=== His Work ===

In his work Eliot transmuted his affinity for English metaphysical poets of the seventeenth century and for French symbolist poets from the nineteenth century into enormous innovations in his poetic technique and subject matter. The poems in particular express a disillusionment of a younger post-World-War I-generation with the values and conventions of the Victorian era.
In his criticism of poetry Eliot articulates a conception that demonstrates continuity with the thought of Romantic criticism and aesthetics. His central ideas also originate in idealist epistemology. His views were mostly based on the basis of a social and religious conservatism.

=== A Selected Bibliography of his works ===

==== Poetry ====
''Prufrock and Other Observations'' (1917)

''Poems'' (1919)

''The Waste Land'' (1922)

''Poems, 1909-1925'' (1925)

''Ash Wednesday'' (1930)

''East Coker'' (1940)

''Burnt Norton'' (1941)

''The Dry Salvages'' (1941)

''Four Quartets'' (1943)

''The Complete Poems and Plays'' (1952)

''Collected Poems'' (1962)

==== Prose ====
''The Sacred Wood'' (1920)

''Andrew Marvell'' (1922)

''For Lancelot Andrews'' (1928)

''Dante'' (1929)

''Tradition and Experimentation in Present-Day Literature'' (1929)

''Thoughts After Lambeth'' (1931)

''John Dryden'' (1932)

''After Strange Gods'' (1933)

''The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism'' (1933)

''Elizabethan Essays'' (1934)

''Essays Ancient and Modern'' (1936)

''The Idea of a Christian Society'' (1940)

''The Classics and The Man of Letters'' (1942)

''Notes Towards the Definition of Culture'' (1949)

''Poetry and Drama'' (1951)

''Religious Drama: Mediaeval and Modern'' (1954)

''The Three Voices of Poetry'' (1954)

==== Drama ====
''Sweeney Agonistes'' (1932)

''The Rock'' (1934)

''Murder in the Cathedral'' (1935)

''The Family Reunion'' (1939)

''The Cocktail Party'' (1950)

''The Confidential Clerk'' (1953)

''The Elder Statesman'' (1958)

=== Sources: ===
Ackroyd, Peter. ''T.S. Eliot''. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1984.

Allan, Mowbray. ''T.S. Eliot's Impersonal Theory of Poetry''. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 1974.

''Modern American Poetry''.Ed. Nelson, Cary and Bartholomew Brinkman. 2011. Department of English, University of Illionois. <www. illinois.edu/maps/index.htm>

''Academy of American Poets''. 2011. <http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/18>

T. S. Eliot

2011-11-18T07:54:43Z

Jaspeigj: /* Education = */

Thomas Sterns Eliot, a poet, playwright, critic, editor (26 Sept. 1888, St. Louis, USA – 4 Jan. 1965, London).

=== Childhood ===
T.S. Eliot was born in St Louis, Missouri, as the youngest of seven children. His father Henry Ware Eliot was originally from England. He was a businessman and at the time of T.S. Eliot’s birth he had recovered from a financial failure and was succeeding in business. The family was thus prosperous. His mother was Charlotte Champe Eliot, a former teacher who wrote poems. It was her who influenced T.S. Eliot most and who directed him towards the literary culture. The relation to his father is often described as reserved due to the fact that Henry Ware Eliot was already growing deaf when Eliot was born. However, his connection in general to the family has often been described as very close.

=== Education ===
Until he was sixteen, T.S. Eliot attended Smith Academy in St. Louis. In his last year there, he wrote short stories about the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair (an international exposition) which had impressed him much. These were published in in the Smith Academy Record.
In 1905 Eliot departed for one year at the Milton Academy which was outside of Boston. This served as a preparation for his attending of Harvard. From 1906 to 1910 Eliot was an undergraduate student there and he attained a BA in comparative literature and then a Master in English literature in the fourth year. In 1910 he went to the Sorbonne University at Paris for one year before he came back to Harvard to study philosophy as a graduate student and to begin his doctoral thesis on F.H. Bradley. In 1914 he again left Harvard for London.

=== His life and career ===
Having settled down in England Eliot started working as a teacher and later for Lloyd’s Bank. He married Vivienne Haigh-Wood, a dancer, in 1915. His parents were shocked by this decision, and the marriage nearly caused a break between them. However, the marriage also marked Eliot’s beginning of an English life, taking his life in literary London.
It was Ezra Pound among Eliot’s contemporaries who recognized Eliot’s poetic genius. In 1922 Eliot published ''The Waste Land'' which made his reputation grow and which is today still considered as the most influential poetic work of the twentieth century. In 1927 Eliot took British citizenship and by doing that he caused a furor. By 1930 and the next 30 years Eliot was the most dominant figure in poetry and literary criticism in the English speaking world. As a critic, he had a great influence on the contemporary literary taste. Apart from his poetic work Eliot also became recognized as a playwright. In 1933 Eliot separated from his wife. He was given the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948. Eliot remarried to Valerie Fletcher in 1956 and attained a degree of contentedness. He died in 1965 in London.

=== His Work ===

In his work Eliot transmuted his affinity for English metaphysical poets of the seventeenth century and for French symbolist poets from the nineteenth century into enormous innovations in his poetic technique and subject matter. The poems in particular express a disillusionment of a younger post-World-War I-generation with the values and conventions of the Victorian era.
In his criticism of poetry Eliot articulates a conception that demonstrates continuity with the thought of Romantic criticism and aesthetics. His central ideas also originate in idealist epistemology. His views were mostly based on the basis of a social and religious conservatism.

=== A Selected Bibliography of his works ===

==== Poetry ====
''Prufrock and Other Observations'' (1917)

''Poems'' (1919)

''The Waste Land'' (1922)

''Poems, 1909-1925'' (1925)

''Ash Wednesday'' (1930)

''East Coker'' (1940)

''Burnt Norton'' (1941)

''The Dry Salvages'' (1941)

''Four Quartets'' (1943)

''The Complete Poems and Plays'' (1952)

''Collected Poems'' (1962)

==== Prose ====
''The Sacred Wood'' (1920)

''Andrew Marvell'' (1922)

''For Lancelot Andrews'' (1928)

''Dante'' (1929)

''Tradition and Experimentation in Present-Day Literature'' (1929)

''Thoughts After Lambeth'' (1931)

''John Dryden'' (1932)

''After Strange Gods'' (1933)

''The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism'' (1933)

''Elizabethan Essays'' (1934)

''Essays Ancient and Modern'' (1936)

''The Idea of a Christian Society'' (1940)

''The Classics and The Man of Letters'' (1942)

''Notes Towards the Definition of Culture'' (1949)

''Poetry and Drama'' (1951)

''Religious Drama: Mediaeval and Modern'' (1954)

''The Three Voices of Poetry'' (1954)

==== Drama ====
''Sweeney Agonistes'' (1932)

''The Rock'' (1934)

''Murder in the Cathedral'' (1935)

''The Family Reunion'' (1939)

''The Cocktail Party'' (1950)

''The Confidential Clerk'' (1953)

''The Elder Statesman'' (1958)

=== Sources: ===
Ackroyd, Peter. ''T.S. Eliot''. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1984.

Allan, Mowbray. ''T.S. Eliot's Impersonal Theory of Poetry''. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 1974.

''Modern American Poetry''.Ed. Nelson, Cary and Bartholomew Brinkman. 2011. Department of English, University of Illionois. <www. illinois.edu/maps/index.htm>

''Academy of American Poets''. 2011. <http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/18>

T. S. Eliot

2011-11-18T07:54:12Z

Jaspeigj: /* T.S. Eliot */

Thomas Sterns Eliot, a poet, playwright, critic, editor (26 Sept. 1888, St. Louis, USA – 4 Jan. 1965, London).

=== Childhood ===
T.S. Eliot was born in St Louis, Missouri, as the youngest of seven children. His father Henry Ware Eliot was originally from England. He was a businessman and at the time of T.S. Eliot’s birth he had recovered from a financial failure and was succeeding in business. The family was thus prosperous. His mother was Charlotte Champe Eliot, a former teacher who wrote poems. It was her who influenced T.S. Eliot most and who directed him towards the literary culture. The relation to his father is often described as reserved due to the fact that Henry Ware Eliot was already growing deaf when Eliot was born. However, his connection in general to the family has often been described as very close.

=== Education ====
Until he was sixteen, T.S. Eliot attended Smith Academy in St. Louis. In his last year there, he wrote short stories about the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair (an international exposition) which had impressed him much. These were published in in the Smith Academy Record.
In 1905 Eliot departed for one year at the Milton Academy which was outside of Boston. This served as a preparation for his attending of Harvard. From 1906 to 1910 Eliot was an undergraduate student there and he attained a BA in comparative literature and then a Master in English literature in the fourth year. In 1910 he went to the Sorbonne University at Paris for one year before he came back to Harvard to study philosophy as a graduate student and to begin his doctoral thesis on F.H. Bradley. In 1914 he again left Harvard for London.

==== His life and career ====
Having settled down in England Eliot started working as a teacher and later for Lloyd’s Bank. He married Vivienne Haigh-Wood, a dancer, in 1915. His parents were shocked by this decision, and the marriage nearly caused a break between them. However, the marriage also marked Eliot’s beginning of an English life, taking his life in literary London.
It was Ezra Pound among Eliot’s contemporaries who recognized Eliot’s poetic genius. In 1922 Eliot published ''The Waste Land'' which made his reputation grow and which is today still considered as the most influential poetic work of the twentieth century. In 1927 Eliot took British citizenship and by doing that he caused a furor. By 1930 and the next 30 years Eliot was the most dominant figure in poetry and literary criticism in the English speaking world. As a critic, he had a great influence on the contemporary literary taste. Apart from his poetic work Eliot also became recognized as a playwright. In 1933 Eliot separated from his wife. He was given the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948. Eliot remarried to Valerie Fletcher in 1956 and attained a degree of contentedness. He died in 1965 in London.

=== His Work ===

In his work Eliot transmuted his affinity for English metaphysical poets of the seventeenth century and for French symbolist poets from the nineteenth century into enormous innovations in his poetic technique and subject matter. The poems in particular express a disillusionment of a younger post-World-War I-generation with the values and conventions of the Victorian era.
In his criticism of poetry Eliot articulates a conception that demonstrates continuity with the thought of Romantic criticism and aesthetics. His central ideas also originate in idealist epistemology. His views were mostly based on the basis of a social and religious conservatism.

=== A Selected Bibliography of his works ===

==== Poetry ====
''Prufrock and Other Observations'' (1917)

''Poems'' (1919)

''The Waste Land'' (1922)

''Poems, 1909-1925'' (1925)

''Ash Wednesday'' (1930)

''East Coker'' (1940)

''Burnt Norton'' (1941)

''The Dry Salvages'' (1941)

''Four Quartets'' (1943)

''The Complete Poems and Plays'' (1952)

''Collected Poems'' (1962)

==== Prose ====
''The Sacred Wood'' (1920)

''Andrew Marvell'' (1922)

''For Lancelot Andrews'' (1928)

''Dante'' (1929)

''Tradition and Experimentation in Present-Day Literature'' (1929)

''Thoughts After Lambeth'' (1931)

''John Dryden'' (1932)

''After Strange Gods'' (1933)

''The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism'' (1933)

''Elizabethan Essays'' (1934)

''Essays Ancient and Modern'' (1936)

''The Idea of a Christian Society'' (1940)

''The Classics and The Man of Letters'' (1942)

''Notes Towards the Definition of Culture'' (1949)

''Poetry and Drama'' (1951)

''Religious Drama: Mediaeval and Modern'' (1954)

''The Three Voices of Poetry'' (1954)

==== Drama ====
''Sweeney Agonistes'' (1932)

''The Rock'' (1934)

''Murder in the Cathedral'' (1935)

''The Family Reunion'' (1939)

''The Cocktail Party'' (1950)

''The Confidential Clerk'' (1953)

''The Elder Statesman'' (1958)

=== Sources: ===
Ackroyd, Peter. ''T.S. Eliot''. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1984.

Allan, Mowbray. ''T.S. Eliot's Impersonal Theory of Poetry''. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 1974.

''Modern American Poetry''.Ed. Nelson, Cary and Bartholomew Brinkman. 2011. Department of English, University of Illionois. <www. illinois.edu/maps/index.htm>

''Academy of American Poets''. 2011. <http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/18>

T. S. Eliot

2011-11-18T07:53:12Z

Jaspeigj: /* Poetry */

== '''T.S. Eliot''' ==

Thomas Sterns Eliot, a poet, playwright, critic, editor (26 Sept. 1888, St. Louis, USA – 4 Jan. 1965, London).

=== Childhood ===
T.S. Eliot was born in St Louis, Missouri, as the youngest of seven children. His father Henry Ware Eliot was originally from England. He was a businessman and at the time of T.S. Eliot’s birth he had recovered from a financial failure and was succeeding in business. The family was thus prosperous. His mother was Charlotte Champe Eliot, a former teacher who wrote poems. It was her who influenced T.S. Eliot most and who directed him towards the literary culture. The relation to his father is often described as reserved due to the fact that Henry Ware Eliot was already growing deaf when Eliot was born. However, his connection in general to the family has often been described as very close.

=== Education ====
Until he was sixteen, T.S. Eliot attended Smith Academy in St. Louis. In his last year there, he wrote short stories about the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair (an international exposition) which had impressed him much. These were published in in the Smith Academy Record.
In 1905 Eliot departed for one year at the Milton Academy which was outside of Boston. This served as a preparation for his attending of Harvard. From 1906 to 1910 Eliot was an undergraduate student there and he attained a BA in comparative literature and then a Master in English literature in the fourth year. In 1910 he went to the Sorbonne University at Paris for one year before he came back to Harvard to study philosophy as a graduate student and to begin his doctoral thesis on F.H. Bradley. In 1914 he again left Harvard for London.

==== His life and career ====
Having settled down in England Eliot started working as a teacher and later for Lloyd’s Bank. He married Vivienne Haigh-Wood, a dancer, in 1915. His parents were shocked by this decision, and the marriage nearly caused a break between them. However, the marriage also marked Eliot’s beginning of an English life, taking his life in literary London.
It was Ezra Pound among Eliot’s contemporaries who recognized Eliot’s poetic genius. In 1922 Eliot published ''The Waste Land'' which made his reputation grow and which is today still considered as the most influential poetic work of the twentieth century. In 1927 Eliot took British citizenship and by doing that he caused a furor. By 1930 and the next 30 years Eliot was the most dominant figure in poetry and literary criticism in the English speaking world. As a critic, he had a great influence on the contemporary literary taste. Apart from his poetic work Eliot also became recognized as a playwright. In 1933 Eliot separated from his wife. He was given the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948. Eliot remarried to Valerie Fletcher in 1956 and attained a degree of contentedness. He died in 1965 in London.

=== His Work ===

In his work Eliot transmuted his affinity for English metaphysical poets of the seventeenth century and for French symbolist poets from the nineteenth century into enormous innovations in his poetic technique and subject matter. The poems in particular express a disillusionment of a younger post-World-War I-generation with the values and conventions of the Victorian era.
In his criticism of poetry Eliot articulates a conception that demonstrates continuity with the thought of Romantic criticism and aesthetics. His central ideas also originate in idealist epistemology. His views were mostly based on the basis of a social and religious conservatism.

=== A Selected Bibliography of his works ===

==== Poetry ====
''Prufrock and Other Observations'' (1917)

''Poems'' (1919)

''The Waste Land'' (1922)

''Poems, 1909-1925'' (1925)

''Ash Wednesday'' (1930)

''East Coker'' (1940)

''Burnt Norton'' (1941)

''The Dry Salvages'' (1941)

''Four Quartets'' (1943)

''The Complete Poems and Plays'' (1952)

''Collected Poems'' (1962)

==== Prose ====
''The Sacred Wood'' (1920)

''Andrew Marvell'' (1922)

''For Lancelot Andrews'' (1928)

''Dante'' (1929)

''Tradition and Experimentation in Present-Day Literature'' (1929)

''Thoughts After Lambeth'' (1931)

''John Dryden'' (1932)

''After Strange Gods'' (1933)

''The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism'' (1933)

''Elizabethan Essays'' (1934)

''Essays Ancient and Modern'' (1936)

''The Idea of a Christian Society'' (1940)

''The Classics and The Man of Letters'' (1942)

''Notes Towards the Definition of Culture'' (1949)

''Poetry and Drama'' (1951)

''Religious Drama: Mediaeval and Modern'' (1954)

''The Three Voices of Poetry'' (1954)

==== Drama ====
''Sweeney Agonistes'' (1932)

''The Rock'' (1934)

''Murder in the Cathedral'' (1935)

''The Family Reunion'' (1939)

''The Cocktail Party'' (1950)

''The Confidential Clerk'' (1953)

''The Elder Statesman'' (1958)

=== Sources: ===
Ackroyd, Peter. ''T.S. Eliot''. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1984.

Allan, Mowbray. ''T.S. Eliot's Impersonal Theory of Poetry''. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 1974.

''Modern American Poetry''.Ed. Nelson, Cary and Bartholomew Brinkman. 2011. Department of English, University of Illionois. <www. illinois.edu/maps/index.htm>

''Academy of American Poets''. 2011. <http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/18>

T. S. Eliot

2011-11-18T07:52:34Z

Jaspeigj: /* Prose */

== '''T.S. Eliot''' ==

Thomas Sterns Eliot, a poet, playwright, critic, editor (26 Sept. 1888, St. Louis, USA – 4 Jan. 1965, London).

=== Childhood ===
T.S. Eliot was born in St Louis, Missouri, as the youngest of seven children. His father Henry Ware Eliot was originally from England. He was a businessman and at the time of T.S. Eliot’s birth he had recovered from a financial failure and was succeeding in business. The family was thus prosperous. His mother was Charlotte Champe Eliot, a former teacher who wrote poems. It was her who influenced T.S. Eliot most and who directed him towards the literary culture. The relation to his father is often described as reserved due to the fact that Henry Ware Eliot was already growing deaf when Eliot was born. However, his connection in general to the family has often been described as very close.

=== Education ====
Until he was sixteen, T.S. Eliot attended Smith Academy in St. Louis. In his last year there, he wrote short stories about the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair (an international exposition) which had impressed him much. These were published in in the Smith Academy Record.
In 1905 Eliot departed for one year at the Milton Academy which was outside of Boston. This served as a preparation for his attending of Harvard. From 1906 to 1910 Eliot was an undergraduate student there and he attained a BA in comparative literature and then a Master in English literature in the fourth year. In 1910 he went to the Sorbonne University at Paris for one year before he came back to Harvard to study philosophy as a graduate student and to begin his doctoral thesis on F.H. Bradley. In 1914 he again left Harvard for London.

==== His life and career ====
Having settled down in England Eliot started working as a teacher and later for Lloyd’s Bank. He married Vivienne Haigh-Wood, a dancer, in 1915. His parents were shocked by this decision, and the marriage nearly caused a break between them. However, the marriage also marked Eliot’s beginning of an English life, taking his life in literary London.
It was Ezra Pound among Eliot’s contemporaries who recognized Eliot’s poetic genius. In 1922 Eliot published ''The Waste Land'' which made his reputation grow and which is today still considered as the most influential poetic work of the twentieth century. In 1927 Eliot took British citizenship and by doing that he caused a furor. By 1930 and the next 30 years Eliot was the most dominant figure in poetry and literary criticism in the English speaking world. As a critic, he had a great influence on the contemporary literary taste. Apart from his poetic work Eliot also became recognized as a playwright. In 1933 Eliot separated from his wife. He was given the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948. Eliot remarried to Valerie Fletcher in 1956 and attained a degree of contentedness. He died in 1965 in London.

=== His Work ===

In his work Eliot transmuted his affinity for English metaphysical poets of the seventeenth century and for French symbolist poets from the nineteenth century into enormous innovations in his poetic technique and subject matter. The poems in particular express a disillusionment of a younger post-World-War I-generation with the values and conventions of the Victorian era.
In his criticism of poetry Eliot articulates a conception that demonstrates continuity with the thought of Romantic criticism and aesthetics. His central ideas also originate in idealist epistemology. His views were mostly based on the basis of a social and religious conservatism.

=== A Selected Bibliography of his works ===

==== Poetry ====
''Prufrock and Other Observations''''''Italic text'''' (1917)
''Poems'' (1919)
''The Waste Land'' (1922)
''Poems, 1909-1925'' (1925)
''Ash Wednesday'' (1930)
''East Coker'' (1940)
''Burnt Norton'' (1941)
''The Dry Salvages'' (1941)
''Four Quartets'' (1943)
''The Complete Poems and Plays'' (1952)
''Collected Poems'' (1962)

==== Prose ====
''The Sacred Wood'' (1920)

''Andrew Marvell'' (1922)

''For Lancelot Andrews'' (1928)

''Dante'' (1929)

''Tradition and Experimentation in Present-Day Literature'' (1929)

''Thoughts After Lambeth'' (1931)

''John Dryden'' (1932)

''After Strange Gods'' (1933)

''The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism'' (1933)

''Elizabethan Essays'' (1934)

''Essays Ancient and Modern'' (1936)

''The Idea of a Christian Society'' (1940)

''The Classics and The Man of Letters'' (1942)

''Notes Towards the Definition of Culture'' (1949)

''Poetry and Drama'' (1951)

''Religious Drama: Mediaeval and Modern'' (1954)

''The Three Voices of Poetry'' (1954)

==== Drama ====
''Sweeney Agonistes'' (1932)

''The Rock'' (1934)

''Murder in the Cathedral'' (1935)

''The Family Reunion'' (1939)

''The Cocktail Party'' (1950)

''The Confidential Clerk'' (1953)

''The Elder Statesman'' (1958)

=== Sources: ===
Ackroyd, Peter. ''T.S. Eliot''. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1984.

Allan, Mowbray. ''T.S. Eliot's Impersonal Theory of Poetry''. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 1974.

''Modern American Poetry''.Ed. Nelson, Cary and Bartholomew Brinkman. 2011. Department of English, University of Illionois. <www. illinois.edu/maps/index.htm>

''Academy of American Poets''. 2011. <http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/18>

T. S. Eliot

2011-11-18T07:52:03Z

Jaspeigj: /* Drama */

== '''T.S. Eliot''' ==

Thomas Sterns Eliot, a poet, playwright, critic, editor (26 Sept. 1888, St. Louis, USA – 4 Jan. 1965, London).

=== Childhood ===
T.S. Eliot was born in St Louis, Missouri, as the youngest of seven children. His father Henry Ware Eliot was originally from England. He was a businessman and at the time of T.S. Eliot’s birth he had recovered from a financial failure and was succeeding in business. The family was thus prosperous. His mother was Charlotte Champe Eliot, a former teacher who wrote poems. It was her who influenced T.S. Eliot most and who directed him towards the literary culture. The relation to his father is often described as reserved due to the fact that Henry Ware Eliot was already growing deaf when Eliot was born. However, his connection in general to the family has often been described as very close.

=== Education ====
Until he was sixteen, T.S. Eliot attended Smith Academy in St. Louis. In his last year there, he wrote short stories about the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair (an international exposition) which had impressed him much. These were published in in the Smith Academy Record.
In 1905 Eliot departed for one year at the Milton Academy which was outside of Boston. This served as a preparation for his attending of Harvard. From 1906 to 1910 Eliot was an undergraduate student there and he attained a BA in comparative literature and then a Master in English literature in the fourth year. In 1910 he went to the Sorbonne University at Paris for one year before he came back to Harvard to study philosophy as a graduate student and to begin his doctoral thesis on F.H. Bradley. In 1914 he again left Harvard for London.

==== His life and career ====
Having settled down in England Eliot started working as a teacher and later for Lloyd’s Bank. He married Vivienne Haigh-Wood, a dancer, in 1915. His parents were shocked by this decision, and the marriage nearly caused a break between them. However, the marriage also marked Eliot’s beginning of an English life, taking his life in literary London.
It was Ezra Pound among Eliot’s contemporaries who recognized Eliot’s poetic genius. In 1922 Eliot published ''The Waste Land'' which made his reputation grow and which is today still considered as the most influential poetic work of the twentieth century. In 1927 Eliot took British citizenship and by doing that he caused a furor. By 1930 and the next 30 years Eliot was the most dominant figure in poetry and literary criticism in the English speaking world. As a critic, he had a great influence on the contemporary literary taste. Apart from his poetic work Eliot also became recognized as a playwright. In 1933 Eliot separated from his wife. He was given the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948. Eliot remarried to Valerie Fletcher in 1956 and attained a degree of contentedness. He died in 1965 in London.

=== His Work ===

In his work Eliot transmuted his affinity for English metaphysical poets of the seventeenth century and for French symbolist poets from the nineteenth century into enormous innovations in his poetic technique and subject matter. The poems in particular express a disillusionment of a younger post-World-War I-generation with the values and conventions of the Victorian era.
In his criticism of poetry Eliot articulates a conception that demonstrates continuity with the thought of Romantic criticism and aesthetics. His central ideas also originate in idealist epistemology. His views were mostly based on the basis of a social and religious conservatism.

=== A Selected Bibliography of his works ===

==== Poetry ====
''Prufrock and Other Observations''''''Italic text'''' (1917)
''Poems'' (1919)
''The Waste Land'' (1922)
''Poems, 1909-1925'' (1925)
''Ash Wednesday'' (1930)
''East Coker'' (1940)
''Burnt Norton'' (1941)
''The Dry Salvages'' (1941)
''Four Quartets'' (1943)
''The Complete Poems and Plays'' (1952)
''Collected Poems'' (1962)

==== Prose ====
''The Sacred Wood'' (1920)
''Andrew Marvell'' (1922)
''For Lancelot Andrews'' (1928)
''Dante'' (1929)
''Tradition and Experimentation in Present-Day Literature'' (1929)
''Thoughts After Lambeth'' (1931)
''John Dryden'' (1932)
''After Strange Gods'' (1933)
''The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism'' (1933)
''Elizabethan Essays'' (1934)
''Essays Ancient and Modern'' (1936)
''The Idea of a Christian Society'' (1940)
''The Classics and The Man of Letters'' (1942)
''Notes Towards the Definition of Culture'' (1949)
''Poetry and Drama'' (1951)
''Religious Drama: Mediaeval and Modern'' (1954)
''The Three Voices of Poetry'' (1954)

==== Drama ====
''Sweeney Agonistes'' (1932)

''The Rock'' (1934)

''Murder in the Cathedral'' (1935)

''The Family Reunion'' (1939)

''The Cocktail Party'' (1950)

''The Confidential Clerk'' (1953)

''The Elder Statesman'' (1958)

=== Sources: ===
Ackroyd, Peter. ''T.S. Eliot''. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1984.

Allan, Mowbray. ''T.S. Eliot's Impersonal Theory of Poetry''. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 1974.

''Modern American Poetry''.Ed. Nelson, Cary and Bartholomew Brinkman. 2011. Department of English, University of Illionois. <www. illinois.edu/maps/index.htm>

''Academy of American Poets''. 2011. <http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/18>

T. S. Eliot

2011-11-18T07:51:34Z

Jaspeigj: /* Sources: */

== '''T.S. Eliot''' ==

Thomas Sterns Eliot, a poet, playwright, critic, editor (26 Sept. 1888, St. Louis, USA – 4 Jan. 1965, London).

=== Childhood ===
T.S. Eliot was born in St Louis, Missouri, as the youngest of seven children. His father Henry Ware Eliot was originally from England. He was a businessman and at the time of T.S. Eliot’s birth he had recovered from a financial failure and was succeeding in business. The family was thus prosperous. His mother was Charlotte Champe Eliot, a former teacher who wrote poems. It was her who influenced T.S. Eliot most and who directed him towards the literary culture. The relation to his father is often described as reserved due to the fact that Henry Ware Eliot was already growing deaf when Eliot was born. However, his connection in general to the family has often been described as very close.

=== Education ====
Until he was sixteen, T.S. Eliot attended Smith Academy in St. Louis. In his last year there, he wrote short stories about the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair (an international exposition) which had impressed him much. These were published in in the Smith Academy Record.
In 1905 Eliot departed for one year at the Milton Academy which was outside of Boston. This served as a preparation for his attending of Harvard. From 1906 to 1910 Eliot was an undergraduate student there and he attained a BA in comparative literature and then a Master in English literature in the fourth year. In 1910 he went to the Sorbonne University at Paris for one year before he came back to Harvard to study philosophy as a graduate student and to begin his doctoral thesis on F.H. Bradley. In 1914 he again left Harvard for London.

==== His life and career ====
Having settled down in England Eliot started working as a teacher and later for Lloyd’s Bank. He married Vivienne Haigh-Wood, a dancer, in 1915. His parents were shocked by this decision, and the marriage nearly caused a break between them. However, the marriage also marked Eliot’s beginning of an English life, taking his life in literary London.
It was Ezra Pound among Eliot’s contemporaries who recognized Eliot’s poetic genius. In 1922 Eliot published ''The Waste Land'' which made his reputation grow and which is today still considered as the most influential poetic work of the twentieth century. In 1927 Eliot took British citizenship and by doing that he caused a furor. By 1930 and the next 30 years Eliot was the most dominant figure in poetry and literary criticism in the English speaking world. As a critic, he had a great influence on the contemporary literary taste. Apart from his poetic work Eliot also became recognized as a playwright. In 1933 Eliot separated from his wife. He was given the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948. Eliot remarried to Valerie Fletcher in 1956 and attained a degree of contentedness. He died in 1965 in London.

=== His Work ===

In his work Eliot transmuted his affinity for English metaphysical poets of the seventeenth century and for French symbolist poets from the nineteenth century into enormous innovations in his poetic technique and subject matter. The poems in particular express a disillusionment of a younger post-World-War I-generation with the values and conventions of the Victorian era.
In his criticism of poetry Eliot articulates a conception that demonstrates continuity with the thought of Romantic criticism and aesthetics. His central ideas also originate in idealist epistemology. His views were mostly based on the basis of a social and religious conservatism.

=== A Selected Bibliography of his works ===

==== Poetry ====
''Prufrock and Other Observations''''''Italic text'''' (1917)
''Poems'' (1919)
''The Waste Land'' (1922)
''Poems, 1909-1925'' (1925)
''Ash Wednesday'' (1930)
''East Coker'' (1940)
''Burnt Norton'' (1941)
''The Dry Salvages'' (1941)
''Four Quartets'' (1943)
''The Complete Poems and Plays'' (1952)
''Collected Poems'' (1962)

==== Prose ====
''The Sacred Wood'' (1920)
''Andrew Marvell'' (1922)
''For Lancelot Andrews'' (1928)
''Dante'' (1929)
''Tradition and Experimentation in Present-Day Literature'' (1929)
''Thoughts After Lambeth'' (1931)
''John Dryden'' (1932)
''After Strange Gods'' (1933)
''The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism'' (1933)
''Elizabethan Essays'' (1934)
''Essays Ancient and Modern'' (1936)
''The Idea of a Christian Society'' (1940)
''The Classics and The Man of Letters'' (1942)
''Notes Towards the Definition of Culture'' (1949)
''Poetry and Drama'' (1951)
''Religious Drama: Mediaeval and Modern'' (1954)
''The Three Voices of Poetry'' (1954)

==== Drama ====
''Sweeney Agonistes'' (1932)
''The Rock'' (1934)
''Murder in the Cathedral'' (1935)
''The Family Reunion'' (1939)
''The Cocktail Party'' (1950)
''The Confidential Clerk'' (1953)
''The Elder Statesman'' (1958)

=== Sources: ===
Ackroyd, Peter. ''T.S. Eliot''. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1984.

Allan, Mowbray. ''T.S. Eliot's Impersonal Theory of Poetry''. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 1974.

''Modern American Poetry''.Ed. Nelson, Cary and Bartholomew Brinkman. 2011. Department of English, University of Illionois. <www. illinois.edu/maps/index.htm>

''Academy of American Poets''. 2011. <http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/18>

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2011-11-18T07:50:38Z

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== '''T.S. Eliot''' ==

Thomas Sterns Eliot, a poet, playwright, critic, editor (26 Sept. 1888, St. Louis, USA – 4 Jan. 1965, London).

=== Childhood ===
T.S. Eliot was born in St Louis, Missouri, as the youngest of seven children. His father Henry Ware Eliot was originally from England. He was a businessman and at the time of T.S. Eliot’s birth he had recovered from a financial failure and was succeeding in business. The family was thus prosperous. His mother was Charlotte Champe Eliot, a former teacher who wrote poems. It was her who influenced T.S. Eliot most and who directed him towards the literary culture. The relation to his father is often described as reserved due to the fact that Henry Ware Eliot was already growing deaf when Eliot was born. However, his connection in general to the family has often been described as very close.

=== Education ====
Until he was sixteen, T.S. Eliot attended Smith Academy in St. Louis. In his last year there, he wrote short stories about the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair (an international exposition) which had impressed him much. These were published in in the Smith Academy Record.
In 1905 Eliot departed for one year at the Milton Academy which was outside of Boston. This served as a preparation for his attending of Harvard. From 1906 to 1910 Eliot was an undergraduate student there and he attained a BA in comparative literature and then a Master in English literature in the fourth year. In 1910 he went to the Sorbonne University at Paris for one year before he came back to Harvard to study philosophy as a graduate student and to begin his doctoral thesis on F.H. Bradley. In 1914 he again left Harvard for London.

==== His life and career ====
Having settled down in England Eliot started working as a teacher and later for Lloyd’s Bank. He married Vivienne Haigh-Wood, a dancer, in 1915. His parents were shocked by this decision, and the marriage nearly caused a break between them. However, the marriage also marked Eliot’s beginning of an English life, taking his life in literary London.
It was Ezra Pound among Eliot’s contemporaries who recognized Eliot’s poetic genius. In 1922 Eliot published ''The Waste Land'' which made his reputation grow and which is today still considered as the most influential poetic work of the twentieth century. In 1927 Eliot took British citizenship and by doing that he caused a furor. By 1930 and the next 30 years Eliot was the most dominant figure in poetry and literary criticism in the English speaking world. As a critic, he had a great influence on the contemporary literary taste. Apart from his poetic work Eliot also became recognized as a playwright. In 1933 Eliot separated from his wife. He was given the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948. Eliot remarried to Valerie Fletcher in 1956 and attained a degree of contentedness. He died in 1965 in London.

=== His Work ===

In his work Eliot transmuted his affinity for English metaphysical poets of the seventeenth century and for French symbolist poets from the nineteenth century into enormous innovations in his poetic technique and subject matter. The poems in particular express a disillusionment of a younger post-World-War I-generation with the values and conventions of the Victorian era.
In his criticism of poetry Eliot articulates a conception that demonstrates continuity with the thought of Romantic criticism and aesthetics. His central ideas also originate in idealist epistemology. His views were mostly based on the basis of a social and religious conservatism.

=== A Selected Bibliography of his works ===

==== Poetry ====
''Prufrock and Other Observations''''''Italic text'''' (1917)
''Poems'' (1919)
''The Waste Land'' (1922)
''Poems, 1909-1925'' (1925)
''Ash Wednesday'' (1930)
''East Coker'' (1940)
''Burnt Norton'' (1941)
''The Dry Salvages'' (1941)
''Four Quartets'' (1943)
''The Complete Poems and Plays'' (1952)
''Collected Poems'' (1962)

==== Prose ====
''The Sacred Wood'' (1920)
''Andrew Marvell'' (1922)
''For Lancelot Andrews'' (1928)
''Dante'' (1929)
''Tradition and Experimentation in Present-Day Literature'' (1929)
''Thoughts After Lambeth'' (1931)
''John Dryden'' (1932)
''After Strange Gods'' (1933)
''The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism'' (1933)
''Elizabethan Essays'' (1934)
''Essays Ancient and Modern'' (1936)
''The Idea of a Christian Society'' (1940)
''The Classics and The Man of Letters'' (1942)
''Notes Towards the Definition of Culture'' (1949)
''Poetry and Drama'' (1951)
''Religious Drama: Mediaeval and Modern'' (1954)
''The Three Voices of Poetry'' (1954)

==== Drama ====
''Sweeney Agonistes'' (1932)
''The Rock'' (1934)
''Murder in the Cathedral'' (1935)
''The Family Reunion'' (1939)
''The Cocktail Party'' (1950)
''The Confidential Clerk'' (1953)
''The Elder Statesman'' (1958)

=== Sources: ===
Ackroyd, Peter. ''T.S. Eliot''. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1984.
Allan, Mowbray. ''T.S. Eliot's Impersonal Theory of Poetry''. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 1974.

''Modern American Poetry''.Ed. Nelson, Cary and Bartholomew Brinkman. 2011. Department of English, University of Illionois. <www. illinois.edu/maps/index.htm>
''Academy of American Poets''. 2011. <http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/18>