T.S. Eliot: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	Thomas Stearns Eliot
Born	September 26, 1888 • St. Louis • Missouri
Died	January 4, 1965 (aged 76) • London • England
Founder	“The Criterion”
Awards And Honors	Nobel Prize (1948)
Notable Works	“Ash Wednesday” • “Burnt Norton” • “East Coker” • “Little Gidding” • “Murder in the Cathedral” • “Notes Towards the Definition of Culture” • “Prufrock and Other Observations” • “Sweeney Agonistes” • “The Confidential Clerk” • “The Dry Salvages” • “The Elder Statesman” • “The Family Reunion” • “Four Quartets” • “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” • “The Metaphysical Poets” • “The Sacred Wood” • “The Waste Land” • “Tradition and the Individual Talent”
Movement / Style	Modernism • New Criticism
Subjects Of Study	Metaphysical poets • poetry

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T.S. Eliot stands at a chalkboard, writing a diagram with letters and Greek symbols representing characters for a play, in his office at the Institute for Advanced Study.

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T.S. Eliot sits at a desk covered with papers, reaching for a document, with a typewriter and lamp in the background at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.

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