![]() 2 East Coker.” David Gorman, June 2000, Thomas Stearns Eliot, Four Quartetsįour Quartets are four interlinked meditations with the common theme being man’s relationship with time, the universe, and the divine. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948, "for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry".(1888-1965) Humanism, Arts and SciencesĮliot, Thomas Stearns. He was also known for his seven plays, particularly Murder in the Cathedral (1935) and The Cocktail Party (1949). It was followed by some of the best-known poems in the English language, including The Waste Land (1922), "The Hollow Men" (1925), "Ash Wednesday" (1930), and Four Quartets (1943). Alfred Prufrock" (1915), which was seen as a masterpiece of the Modernist movement. He eventually became a British subject in 1927 at the age of 39, renouncing his American passport.Įliot attracted widespread attention for his poem "The Love Song of J. ![]() ![]() ![]() Louis, in the United States, he moved to England in 1914 at the age of 25, settling, working, and marrying there. Thomas Stearns Eliot, OM (26 September 1888 – 4 January 1965), was an essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic, and "one of the twentieth century's major poets". ![]()
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