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Q: Where was T.S. Eliot educated?

T.S. Eliot attended Smith Academy, St. Louis, and Milton Academy, Massachusetts. He received a B.A. from Harvard in 1909. He spent the year 1910–11 in France at the Sorbonne and then returned to Harvard. By 1916 he had finished a dissertation, but he never took the final oral examination for the Ph.D. degree.

Q: What is T.S. Eliot best known for?

T.S. Eliot was an American-English poet, playwright, literary critic, and editor. He is best known as a leader of the Modernist movement in poetry and as the author of such works as The Waste Land (1922) and Four Quartets (1943).

Q: How did T.S. Eliot influence the world?

T.S. Eliot exercised a strong influence on Anglo-American culture from the 1920s until late in the century. His experiments in diction , style, and versification revitalized English poetry , and in a series of critical essays he shattered old orthodoxies and erected new ones.

American-English poet, playwright, and literary critic

Also known as: Thomas Stearns Eliot

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In full:: Thomas Stearns Eliot

Born:: September 26, 1888, St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.

Died:: January 4, 1965, London, England (aged 76)

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”

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Where was T.S. Eliot educated?

What is T.S. Eliot best known for?

How did T.S. Eliot influence the world?

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, a leader of the Modernist movement in poetry in 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 century. His experiments in diction, style, and versification revitalized English poetry, and in a series of critical essays he shattered old orthodoxies and erected new ones. The publication of Four Quartets led to his recognition as the greatest living English poet ...(100 of 2608 words)

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