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It’s an image repeated to the point of cliché in subsequent centuries. But in the waste land of T.S. Eliot’s modern world, amid the ruins of World War I, the Chaucerian image of a fertile and resurrective April becomes suffused with cruelty. It is, ironically, winter that “kept us warm.”.
Oct 12, 2016 · Besides Eliot’s own words, the site features new essays on his life and work from authorities in Eliot studies, and is illustrated with some previously unseen photographs. Our new site is also the online focal point for the activities of the T. S. Eliot Foundation. It hosts the T. S. Eliot Poetry Prize and will feature the announcement of the ...
Jan 1, 2009 · T. S. Eliot. Home -. T. S. Eliot. T. S. Eliot grew up in St. Louis, Missouri. He was educated first at Harvard University and then at Oxford University, with a break at the Sorbonne in Paris between his undergraduate and graduate degrees in Boston. He moved to England and began a strained marriage with Vivian Haigh-Wood in 1915.
Nov 9, 2018 · Nov. 9, 2018. In 1921 T. S. Eliot teetered on the brink of a mental collapse. For two years he had been struggling at night to finish a long poem, while working by day in the foreign transactions ...
Poetry. This section introduces Eliot’s poetry, volume by volume, and makes available The Waste Land and ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’, annotated and in full. An account of Eliot’s poetic development, from ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’ to Four Quartets, by Dr Hannah Sullivan of New College, Oxford.
edit data. Thomas Stearns Eliot was a poet, dramatist and literary critic. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948 "for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry." He wrote the poems The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, The Waste Land, The Hollow Men, Ash Wednesday, and Four Quartets; the plays Murder in the ...
After spells of study at Harvard and then at Oxford, Eliot became part of the London literary scene, following a meeting with Ezra Pound in 1914. Pound would champion Eliot and promote his work – he even helped to pay for the publication of Eliot’s first volume of poems, Prufrock and Other Observations, in 1917.
