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Thomas Stearnes Eliot, recipient of the 1948 Nobel Prize for Literature, was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He was the youngest of seven children of an industrialist and a writer. He was educated at Smith Academy in St. Louis, Milton in Massachusetts, and Harvard. He worked briefly as a bank clerk and later became an editor for the publishing house Faber & Faber.
Eliot is considered to be one of the leaders of the modernist movement in literature. He published his first important poem, THE LOVE SONG OF J. ALFRED PRUFROCK, when he was 29. He gained widespread acclaim with his publication THE FOUR QUARTETS.
T.S. Eliot died in London, England in 1965.
CHRONOLOGY
1888 He was born in St. Louis, Missouri.
1906 He entered Harvard University.
1909 He received his B.A. from Harvard.; He became an assistant in philosophy at Harvard.
1910 He spent a year in France attending lectures at the Sorbonne.
1911 He returned to study at Harvard.
1914 He moved to England.
1915 He married Vivienne Haigh-Wood.
1917 THE LOVE SONGS OF J. ALFRED PRUFROCK; He began working as a bank clerk in Lloyds Bank Ltd.; He became and assistant editor of the journal EGOIST.
1919 ARA VOS PREC/ POEMS
1920 SACRED WOOD
1922 THE WASTE LAND; He founded the CRITERION.
1924 HOMAGE TO JOHN DRYDEN
1925 He joined the Faber and Gwyer publishing house.
1927 JOURNEY OF THE MAGI; He became a British citizen.
1928 A SONG FOR SIMEON; FOR LANCELOT ANDREWS: ESSAYS ON STYLE AND ORDER
1929 DANTE; ANIMULA; TRADITION AND EXPERIMENT IN PRESENT DAY LITERATURE
1930 HUMANISM AND AMERICA; ASH WEDNESDAY; MARINA; His wife was confined in a mental institution.
1931 TRIUMPHAL MARCH; THOUGHTS AFTER LAMBETH; A GARLAND FOR JOHN DONNE
1932 SWEENEY AGONISTES; JOHN DRYDEN: THE POET, THE DRAMATIST, THE CRITIC; SELECTED ESSAYS
1933 THE USE OF POETRY AND THE USE OF CRITICISM
1934 ENGLISH CRITICAL ESSAYS; ELISABETHAN ESSAYS
1935 MURDER IN CATHEDRAL; FAITH THAT ILLUMINATES
1936 COLLECTED POEMS 1909-1935
1937 REVELATION
1939 THE IDEA OF CHRISTIAN SOCIETY; THE FAMILY REUNION; OLD POSSUM'S BOOK OF PRACTICAL CATS
1941 THE DRY SALVAGES
1942 LITTLE GIDDING; THE LIFE OF THE CHURCH AND THE ORDER OF SOCIETY
1943 THE SHOCK OF RECOGNITION; THE FOUR QUARTERS
1947 His wife died.
1948 NOTES TOWARD DEFINITION OF CULTURE; JAMES JOYCE; He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
1949 THE UNDERGRADUATE POEMS
1950 POEMS WRITTEN IN EARLY YOUTH; THE COCTAIL PARTY
1951 POETRY AND DRAMA
1952 THE COMPLETE POEMS AND PLAYS; THE VALUE AND USE OF CATHEDRALS IN ENGLAND TODAY
1953 SELECTED PROSE
1954 RELIGIOUS DRAMA; THE CONFIDENTIAL CLERK
1957 ON POETRY AND POETS; He married Valerie Fletcher.
1959 THE ELDER STATESMAN
1962 COLLECTD POEMS 1909-1962; COLLECTED PLAYS
1964 KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF F.H. BRADLEY
1965 TO CRITICIZE THE CRITIC AND OTHER WRITINGS; He died in London, England.
1967 POEMS WRITTEN IN EARLY YOUTH
1971 THE COMPLETE POEMS AND PLAYS OF T.S. ELIOT, 1909-1950; THE WASTE LAND: A FACSIMILE AND TRANSCRIPT OF THE ORIGINAL DRAFTS
1975 SELECTED PROSE
1988 THE LETTERS OF T.S. ELIOT, VOL. 1, 1898-1922
1997 INVENTIONS OF THE MARCH HARE: POEMS 1909-1917
1999 LETTERS OF T.S. ELIOT, VOL 2
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