Frawley-Eliot

​​T.S. Eliot __** Education/Other Life Events **__ Influences Affecting Eliot's Poetry __**
 * **Born in Missouri on September 22, 1888 as Thomas Stearns Eliot**
 * **Attended Harvard where he wrote for the newspaper and graduated in 3 years**
 * **After Harvard, Eliot attended the Sorbonne or The University of Paris (France)**
 * **After a year at Sorbonne, Eliot wanted to get his master's degree from Havard**
 * **However, he was studying in Germany and WWI broke out**
 * **He transfered to Merton College, Oxford**
 * **It is here where he meet his literary partner Ezra Pound**
 * **He moved to London where he married his first wife Vivienne Haigh-Wood**
 * **Became a teacher and banker while in London**
 * **Published many works with the help of Pound while in England**
 * **Won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948**
 * **He also was an acclaimed playwright and literary critic**
 * **Suffered from precarious health problems and died in London in 1965**
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 * **Eliot was a leading modernist poet during the modernist movement in literature**
 * **His works were influcenced by many different topics:**
 * **__the English Metaphysical Poets like John Donne__**
 * **the 19th century French Symbolists Poets**
 * **__Post World War I__**
 * **__Victorian Era values and conventions__**
 * **his conflicting __religious views__**
 * **personal experiences**
 * **his publicist Ezra Pound**
 * **terrible relationship with his first wife Vivienne**
 * **The underlined influences are some of the characteristics comprising modernist poetry**
 * **Eliot loved to incorporate the damage left by WWI to European and American Societies while still giving the readers hope**


 * __ Famous/Important Works __**
 * **[[image:ts-eliot.jpg width="304" height="391" align="right"]]Poems:**
 * **The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915)**
 * **The Waste Land (1922)**
 * **Argued to be his most famous work**
 * **Portrayed a miserable Europe after WWI**
 * **Ash Wednesday (1930)**
 * **Four Quartets (1943)**
 * **Eliot considered this his masterpiece**
 * **Plays:**
 * **Murder in the Catherdral (1935)**
 * **The Family Reunion (1939)**
 * **The Cocktail Party (1950)**
 * **The Rock (1934)**
 * **Literary/Social Criticism Books**
 * **The Sacred Wood (1920)**
 * **The Use of Poetry and Use of Criticism (1933)**
 * **After Strange Gods (1934)**
 * **Note Towards the Definition of Culture (1940)**

__** Works Cited **__ "T. S. Eliot Biography - Life, Family, Children, Name, Story, Death, Wife, School, Young, Book, Old, Information, Born, College, Time, Year." //Encyclopedia of World Biography//. Web. 26 Apr. 2010. . "T. S. Eliot Biography." //Biography Base Home//. Web. 26 Apr. 2010. . "T. S. Eliot." //Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More//. Web. 26 Apr. 2010. . ​