Profile of the Day: T.S. Eliot

Posted September 26, 2014 by Amanda | No Comment
T.S. Eliot

T.S. Eliot

Happy birthday to T.S. Eliot! On this day in 1888, Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in St. Louis, Missouri to an old Yankee family. His grandfather, William Greenleaf Eliot, was most notable for founding Washington University in St. Louis.

In 1914, Eliot emigrated to England at the age of 25. It was around this time that he began a lifelong friendship with poet Ezra Pound. He was naturalized as a British subject in 1927.

Eliot published his first masterpiece The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock in 1915. He followed it with some of the best known-poems in the English language, including The Wast Land and Ash Wednesday. In 1948, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature “for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry.”

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