Thomas Stearns Eliot
Thomas Stearns Eliot was born to a very distinguished New England family on September 26, 1888, in St. Louis, Missouri. His father, Henry Ware, was a very successful businessman and his mother, Charlotte Stearns Eliot, was a poetess. His paternal grandfather established and presided over Washington University. While visiting Great Britain in 1915, World War I started and Eliot took up a permanent residency there. In 1927, he became a British citizen. While living in Britain, Eliot met and married Vivienne Haigh-Wood and at first everything was wonderful between them. Then he found out that Vivienne was very ill, both physically and mentally. In 1930, Vivienne had a mental breakdown and was confined to a mental hospital until her death in 1947. Her death was very hard on Eliot and he died on January 4, 1965. Most of Eliot's works were produced from the emotional difficulties from his marriage. Because of Eliot's economic status, he attended only the finest schools while growing up. He attended Smith Academy in St. Louis and Milton Academy in Massachusetts. In 1906, he started his freshman year at Harvard University studying philosophy and literature. He received his bachelor's degree in philosophy
Eliot converted his religion to Anglo - Catholicism and in 1927, his poetry took on new spiritual meaning. Mays claims that, "It is one of his most approachable poems since it structurally takes fewer risks than some of his later poems. It contained many poetic techniques that changed the face of modern poetry" (Costa 96). His poem The Waste Land is a summation of the disillusion and fragmentation that was felt by so many people following the first World War. "Thomas Stearns Eliot has been considered by many to be the leading American poet of this century. It is widely recognized as one of Eliot's most brilliant poems. "The assumption of the mythical method is that our culture and language once had a pervasive meaningfulness which has been lost in our increasingly rational and discontinuous society, but by recovering the lost myth from within our culture, poets can restore mythic unity to literature" (Leavell 146). Bibliography BIBLIOGRAPHYBrooker, Jewel Spears. Eliot also wrote the play "Murder in the Cathedral" (1935).
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