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T. S. Eliot
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Who is T. S. Eliot?
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Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888 ~ 1965)
Poet / playwright / Dramatist / Literary critic
Representative of Modernism
Nobel Prize in Literature (1948)
Tony Award for Best Play (1950)
13 honorary doctorates (including Oxford, Cambridge, the Sorbonne, and Harvard)
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The Author ? T. S. Eliot
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He was born in 1888 in St. Louis. He was the son of a
prominent industrialist.
In 1915, Eliot, aged 26, was introduced to Vivienne
Haigh-Wood. And in 1932, they are separated.
In 1925, Eliot joined the publishing firm Faber & Faber
later, where he remained for the rest of his career,
eventually becoming a director.
In 1927, Eliot converted to Anglicanism from
Unitarianism, and that year he took British citizenship.
In 1957, Eliot at the age of 68 married Esme Vale¡¦(»ý·«)
1) post-war Europe under the Treaty of Versailles
2) difficulty of hope and religious conversion
3) Eliot`s failed marriage
ess to hope for human salvation.
More casual, melodic, and contemplative method.
Ash Wednesday(1930)
In 1930, Eliot published a book of light verse,
Old Possum¡¯s Book of Practical Cats.
It is a collection of whimsical poems by T.S. Eliot
about feline psychology and sociology.
Old Possum¡¯s Book of Practical Cats (1939)
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It consists of four long poems,
each first published separately:
Burnt Norton (1936)
East Coker (1940)
The Dry Salvages (1941)
Little Gidding (1942)
Each poem is associated with
one of the four classical elements:
air, earth, water, and fire.
Four Quartets(1945)
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POETRY (magazine)
Poetry, published in Chicago, Illinois since 1912, is one of the leading monthly poetry journals in the English-speaking world. Published by the Poetry Foundation and currently edited by Christian Wiman, the magazine has a circulation of 30,000 and prints 300 poems per year out of approximately 100,000 sub