life is long ts eliot
He lived in st. Catholic faith gave him re affirmation of life. Eliot was a lover of imagery.
The former guy as the president calls him is reduced to superfluity.
Life is long ts eliot. And it looks like life is very long robert harrington writing in the palmer report had me thinking quite a lot about t s. Louis missouri u s died january 4 1965 london england american english poet playwright literary critic and editor a leader of the modernist movement in poetry in such works as the waste land 1922 and four quartets 1943. Eliot in full thomas stearns eliot born september 26 1888 st. Alfred prufrock and other poems that are landmarks in the history of literature.
In 1910 he left the united states for the sorbonne having earned both undergraduate and masters degrees and having. Louis missouri on. Part of the ex pat community of the 1920s he spent most of his life in europe dying in london england in 1965. Should i after tea and cakes and ices have the strength to force the moment to its crisis.
Thomas stearns eliot was born in st. Compare gerontion hopelessness religious conversion redemption and some critics argue his failing marriage with vivienne haigh wood eliot. Louis missouri on september 26 1888. Or it malingers stretched on the floor here beside you and me.
Smoothed by long fingers asleep. Louis missouri to establish a unitarian christian church there. He was very depressed at a stage in his life. The eliots were a boston brahmin family with roots in england and new england eliot s paternal grandfather william greenleaf eliot had moved to st.
Like much of his work its themes are overlapping and fragmentary concerned with post world war i europe under the treaty of versailles which eliot despised. Louis during the first eighteen years of his life and attended harvard university. 80 but though i have wept and fasted wept and prayed though i have seen my head grown slightly bald brought in upon a platter. His father henry ware eliot 1843 1919 was a successful businessman president and treasurer of the hydraulic press brick company in st louis.
In 1910 and 1911 while still a college student he wrote the love song of j. The hollow men 1925 is a poem by the modernist writer t. Eliot the 1948 winner of the nobel prize in literature is one of the giants of modern literature highly distinguished as a poet literary critic dramatist and editor and publisher. Thomas stearns eliot better known as t s.
Life early life and education. Check out this biography to know about his childhood family life achievements and fun facts about his life. Eliot s poem the hollow men the article is aptly titled former guy excerpt. Eliot was an american english poet playwright literary critic and editor.