Thomas stearns eliot by lady ottoline morrell (1934)

T.S Eliot

By mbisquert

  • Birth

    Birth
    Thomas Stearns Eliot was born on September 26, 1888 in Saint Louis, Missouri, United States.

  • Abdominal hernia

    Abdominal hernia
    As a child, he had a double abdominal hernia and he can’t do exercise in school. While he couldn't exercise.
    e spent his entire childhood in bed without moving.

  • Preludes

    Preludes
    Preludes" is a poem by T. S. Eliot, composed between 1910 and 1911. It is in turns literal and impressionistic, exploring the sordid and solitary existences of the spiritually moiled as they play out against the backdrop of the drab modern city.

  • University

    University
    In 1911 he went to Harvard and received a doctorate in philosophy. In 1915 he taught French, German, and history at an institute, but soon dropped out.

  • First Wife

    First Wife
    his first wife was Vivienne Haigh-Wood since 1915 but they divorced 1947.

  • The Waste Land

    The Waste Land
    The Waste Land is a poem by T. S. Eliot, widely regarded as one of the most important poems of the 20th century.

  • The Hollow Men

    The Hollow Men
    "The Hollow Men" is a poem by the modernist writer T. S. Eliot. Like much of his work, its themes are overlapping and fragmentary, concerned with post–World War I Europe under the Treaty of Versailles,

  • The Hollow Men

    The Hollow Men
    The Hollow Men" is a poem by the modernist writer T. S. Eliot. Like much of his work, its themes are overlapping and fragmentary, concerned with post–World War I Europe under the Treaty of Versailles.

  • Ash Wednesday

    Ash Wednesday
    "Ash-Wednesday" is the first long poem written by Eliot, after his 1927 conversion to Anglicanism.

  • Citizenship

    He became a British citizen, at the age of thirty-nine and renounced his American citizenship.

  • Four Quartets

    Four Quartets
    East Coker is the second poem of T. S. Eliot's 1943 book Four Quartets. It was started as a way for Eliot to get back into writing poetry and was modelled after Burnt Norton.

  • Nobel prize in literature

    Nobel prize in literature
    He was awarded the 1948 Nobel Prize in Literature, for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry.

  • 2nd wife

    2nd wife
    Valeriew Eliot was hist second wife, he married 1957 and they lasted until the last they of his life.

  • Died

    Died
    he died on January 4, 1965 he was 76 years old.