AboutThomas Stearns Eliot was born in St. Louis, Missouri, on September 26, 1888. As a poet, he transmuted his affinity for the English metaphysical poets of the seventeenth century and the nineteenth century French symbolic poets into radical innovations in poetic technique and subject matter. His poems in many respects articulated the disillusionment of a younger post–World War I generation with the values and conventions—both literary and social—of the Victorian era. As a critic also, he had an enormous impact on contemporary literary taste, propounding views that, after his conversion to orthodox Christianity in the late thirties, were increasingly based in social and religious conservatism. As a poet, a playwrite, and criticisms Eliot never lost his charm and became revered for everything he accomplished.
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Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” |
Poetry
Modernism
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