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T.S. Eliot

American-English poet, playwright, and literary critic
Also known as: Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Allen Tate
Poet and critic. Regents' Professor of English, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1966–68. Editor of T.S. Eliot: The Man and His Work, A Critical Evaluation by Twenty-six Distinguished Writers.
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T.S. Eliot (born September 26, 1888, St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.—died January 4, 1965, London, England) was an American-English poet, playwright, literary critic, and editor who became a leader of the Modernist movement in poetry with such works as The Waste Land (1922) and Four Quartets (1943). Eliot exercised a strong influence on Anglo-American culture from the 1920s until late in the 20th century. His experiments in diction, style, and versification revitalized English-language poetry, and in...

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