T.S. Eliot, American-English author, was one of the most significant English poets of the twentieth century.
He was born in Missouri on 26th September 1888. He moved from his native United States to England in 1914 at the age of 25. In 1927, at the age of 39, he became a British citizen, renouncing his American citizenship.
Eliot’s writing style dealt with the bad feelings that World War I had created in European and American societies. It was in London that Eliot came under the influence of his contemporary Ezra Pound, who assisted in the publication of his work in a number of magazines, most notably ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’ in ‘Poetry’ in 1915.
Some of his other major works are ‘The Wasteland’, ‘The Hollow Men’, ‘Ash Wednesday’, and ‘Four Quartets’. He was also known for his seven plays, particularly ‘Murder in the Cathedral’, and ‘The Cocktail Party’. Among all his works, Eliot considered ‘Four Quartets’, his best. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1948 for his outstanding contribution to poetry”. He died in London on 4th January 1965.
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