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As one of Americas first modernist poets T S Eliots unique style and subject matter would have a dramatic influence on writers for the century to come Born in 1888 in St Louis Mo at the tail end of the Cowboy era he grew up in the more civilized industrial era of the early 20th century a time of the Wright Brothers and Henry Ford The Eliot family was endowed with some of the best intellectual and political connections in America of that time and as a result went to only the best schools By 1906 he was a freshman in Harvard finishing his bachelors in only 3 years and studying philosophy in France from 1910 to 1914 the outbreak of war In 1915 the verse magazine Poetry published Eliots first notable piece The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock This was followed by other short poems such as Portrait of a Lady The Waste Land which appeared in 1922 is considered by many to be his most challenging work see American Literature In 1927 Eliot became a British subject and was confirmed in the Church of England His essays For Lancelot Andrewes 1928 and his poetry Four Quartets 1943 increasingly reflected this association with a traditional culture His first drama was The Rock 1934 a pageant play This was followed by Murder in the Cathedral 1935 a play dealing with the assassination of Archbishop Thomas a Becket who was later canonized The Family Reunion appeared in 1939 The Cocktail Party based upon the ancient Greek drama Alcestis by Euripides came out in 1950 and The Confidential Clerk in 1953 The dialogue in his plays is written in a free rhythmical verse pattern Eliot won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1948 and other major literary awards The author was married twice He died on Jan 4 1965 in London TS Eliot once said that the
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