T. S. Eliot

US-British poet (1888–1965)

  • Fame78.1
  • Momentum0.0
  • Writers rank#106
Source-basedFalling
  • Fame78.1
  • Momentum0.0
  • Writers rank#106
  • Wikipedia67.1K
Lived 1888–1965, aged 77United States
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  • Era
    1888–1965
    Aged 77
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    2019
Summary
Updated 2026-06-21

He rewired English poetry—turned "Prufrock" into a scandal in 1915, then gave the century its jagged scripture with The Waste Land. The Nobel came later, but the revolution was in the line breaks.

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Born in St. Louis in 1888 to a prominent Boston Brahmin family, Thomas Stearns Eliot crossed to England in 1914 at twenty-five and never really went back—became a British subject in 1927, renounced the American passport outright. "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" appeared in 1915 and read like nothing else, outlandish enough to pull attention. The Waste Land followed in 1922, then "The Hollow Men" in 1925, Ash Wednesday in 1930, Four Quartets in 1943—each one tightening the modernist grip on verse structure and language. He wrote seven plays, Murder in the Cathedral in 1935 and The Cocktai…

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