T.S. Eliot, one of the greatest poets known to man, was a poet to remember. His life resembles the model American life; he was brought up in a religious, conservative family, he enjoyed sports of all kinds, and got a college degree. T.S. Eliot, a winner of the Nobel Prize, lived a traditional life and produced numerous famous works of literature.
             T.S. Eliot was born in St. Louis Missouri on September 26th, 1888; he was a descendent of a distinguished New England family. As a child, Eliot enjoyed boxing, baseball, comic strips, and music hall performances. Between 1906 and 1914, he attended Harvard, studying broadly in Literature and Philosophy. As a graduate student in Philosophy, Eliot went overseas to study principally at the Sorbonne and Oxford. With the eruption of World War I in 1914, he came to the decision to live in England.
             In 1915, he married Vivien Haigh-Wood, whose mental instability led to her confinement in mental institutions from 1930 until her death in 1947. This emotional hardness produced by his marriage evidently encouraged some intense passages in Eliot's poetry.
             Living in London, he worked as a teacher, a bank clerk and an editor of the imagist magasine The Egoist. From 1920 to 1939, Eliot edited The Criterion, and joined the publishing company Faber and Gwyer as a head editor in 1925. He later became a director of the firm, which was later renamed aber and Faber.
             Eliot did not receive much fame until later in his life. He did, however, merit a few invitations with such famous writers such as Aldous Huxley and Robert Frost. In The Letters of Robert Frost to Louis Untermeyer, Robert Frost indicates, "Eliot and I have our similarities and our differences. We are both poets and we both like to play. That's the similarity. The difference is this: I like to play Euchre. He likes to play Eucharist." (321). You can see Eliot's religion in some of his poems such as in "Mrs. Eliot's S...