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T.S. Eliot . Biography. by Anthony Domestico and Pericles Lewis. For many readers, T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) is synonymous with modernism. Everything about his poetry bespeaks high modernism: its use of myth to undergird and order atomized modern experience; its collage-like juxtaposition of different voices, traditions, and discourses; and its focus on form as the carrier of meaning.
T. S. Eliot has been considered by many to be the leading American poet of this century. His contemporaries in the 1920s recognized in “The Waste Land” an expression of the exhaustion and fragmentation that afflicted so many in that post-war era. They also recognized the originality of Eliot’s poetic technique and admired his insistence ...
summary. Volume 1 of The Complete Prose of T. S. Eliot, Apprentice Years, 1905-1918 includes all surviving prose from Eliot’s years as a student and from his first three years as a literary journalist. Spanning the most formative period in his life, the collection begins with a story composed when he was a sixteen-year-old student at the ...
The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot Title page of the first book edition (December 1922) First published in The Criterion (UK) The Dial (US) Country United Kingdom Publication date 16 October 1922 (UK) c. 20 October 1922 (US) Lines 434 Full text The Waste Land at Wikisource The Waste Land is a poem by T. S. Eliot, widely regarded as one of the most important English-language poems of the 20th ...
By T. S. Eliot. Webster was much possessed by death. And saw the skull beneath the skin; And breastless creatures under ground. Leaned backward with a lipless grin. Daffodil bulbs instead of balls. Stared from the sockets of the eyes! He knew that thought clings round dead limbs. Tightening its lusts and luxuries.
Russell left behind his first impressions of T. S. Eliot in a letter that possibly inaugurated the now-standard fiction of the poet as representing a final, repressed branch of the old Boston Brahmans: My pupil Eliot was there—the only one who is civilized, and he is ultra-civilized, knows his classics very well, is familiar with all French ...
T.S. Eliot. T.S. Eliot. Teckning av Simon Fieldhouse. Thomas Stearns Eliot, född 26 september 1888 i Saint Louis, Missouri, död 4 januari 1965 i London, var en amerikansk - brittisk författare, poet, litteraturkritiker och nobelpristagare. Eliot föddes i USA men flyttade 1914 till Storbritannien, blev brittisk medborgare och gick in i den ...
