TS Eliot Biography and Works.
Thomas Stearns, TS Eliot (September 26, 1888-January 4, was a playwright, literary critic and the most important English-language poet of the 20th century.
The poem that brought him fame was The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock. Regarded as a masterpiece of the modernist movement, he started writing the poem in 1910 and it was published in Chicago in 1915.
This was followed with what have become some of the best-known poems in the English language, including Gerontion, The Waste Land, The Hollow Men, Ash Wednesday, and Four Quartets.
He is also known for his seven plays, the most important being Murder in the Cathedral.
He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948.
Eliot died of emphysema in London on January 4, 1965 after prolonged illness due to his heavy smoking. In accordance with Eliot’s wishes, his ashes were taken to St Michael’s Church in East Coker, the village from which his ancestors had emigrated to America.
Trivia
Although he was born an American, he moved to The United Kingdom in 1914 at the age of 25 and was naturalized as a British subject in 1927 at the age of 39.
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