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Nov 17, 2014 · T. S. Eliot is widely regarded as one of the most important poets of the last hundred years. Here at Interesting Literature we’re devoted fans of his work, and this got us thinking: which ten defining poems would we recommend to people who want to read him?
The 1948 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, T.S. Eliot is highly distinguished as a poet, a literary critic, a dramatist, an editor, and a publisher. In 1910 and 1911, while still a college student, he wrote “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” published in Poetry magazine, and other poems…
- The Waste Land. ‘The Waste Land,’ epitomizing literary modernism, is one of the most important poems of the 20th century portraying its despondent mood in a new form.
- The Hollow Men. ‘The Hollow Men’ presents the hollow, degenerated, and disillusioned people dealing with their meaningless existence amidst the ruins of the postwar world.
- The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. Breaking away from Victorian diction, T.S. Eliot presents the distinct realities of his time in the stream of consciousness by experimenting with poetic form.
- Burnt Norton. ‘Burnt Norton’ explores the philosophical concepts of time, spirituality, and transcendence, focusing on the human quest for higher meaning.
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1888--1 • Ranked #17 in the top 500 poets. Thomas Stearns Eliot was born on September 26, 1888, in St. Louis, Missouri, the seventh and last child of Henry Ware Eliot, a brick manufacturer, and Charlotte (Stearns) Eliot, who was active in social reform and was herself a not-untalented poet.
Oct 12, 2022 · The Waste Land’s afterlife was a self-fulfilling prophecy strategically crafted by Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot, two writers who sought to meaningfully connect with what they thought of as the...
Twelve o'clock. Along the reaches of the street. Held in a lunar synthesis, Whispering lunar incantations. Dissolve the floors of memory. And all its clear relations, Its divisions and precisions, Every street lamp that I pass. Beats like a fatalistic drum, And through the spaces of the dark. Midnight shakes the memory.
From The Waste Land (Boni & Liveright, 1922) by T.S. Eliot. This poem is in the public domain.
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