Saturday 23 January 2021

T.s Eliot biography

T.S. Eliot Biography

T.S. Eliot was born in 1888 in Missouri, America.
He was a poet, playwright, and literary critic.
He got education from Harvard University and Merton College, Oxford.
He married Vivienne Haigh-Wood in 1915.
He married Esme Valerie Fletcher in 1957.
His full name was Thomas Stearns Eliot.
He won scholarship to Oxford in 1914.
Eliot became a citizen of British at the age of 39.
His father, Henry Ware Eliot businessman, president and treasurer of the Hydraulic- Press Brick Company in St. Louis.
His mother, Charlotte Champe Stearns.
He was a successful wrote poetry and was a social worker.
At Smith Academy where Eliot attended , and his studies included Ancient Greek, Latin, German and French.
Eliot started to write poetry when he was just 14.
He studied philosophy at Harvard.
In 1910, he moved to Paris, where he studied philosophy.
At Birkbeck College, Eliot taught as a lecturer.
Eliot worked as a school teacher at High gate School, a private school in London.
In 1920, Eliot met the famous writer James Joyce in Paris.
Eliot became a warden of his parish church.
Stephen's, Gloucester Road, London in 1927.
He was officered Charles Eliot Norton professorship in 1932 which he accepted till 1933. 
He died in 1965 in London. 
Achievements
Order of Merit in1948.
Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948.
Hanseatic Goethe Prize in 1955.
Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1964.
13 honorary doctorates.
Tony Award in 1950
Eliot College of the University of Kent, England.
13 honorary doctorates
T.s Eliot Works
Tony Award in 1950
Eliot College of the University of Kent, England.
Poetry
Prufrock and Other Observations in 1917 including the following famous poems.
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Portrait of a Lady)
Aunt Helen
The Waste Land
The Hollow Men
Ariel Poems
The Journey of the Magi
Ash Wednesday
Four Quartets
Plays
Sweeney Agonistes
The Rock
Murder in the Cathedral
The Family Reunion
The Cocktail Party
The Confidențial Clerk
The Elder Statesmen 


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