The Life and Works of T.S. Eliot
One of the most influential and celebrated writers of the twentieth century was T. S. Eliot. In his writings he was able to successfully capture the feelings of his time. His contributions to the genre of poetry has had a profound effect on modern literature. While Eliot is most well known for his poetry, he was also an accomplished playwright and author of several books of social criticism (Kunitz 303).Thomas Stearns Eliot, the youngest of seven, was born September 26, 1888 in St. Louis Missouri. His father, Henry Ware Eliot, was a Washington University graduate and son of a very respected Unitarian minister. At the time of his son's birth, he had risen to the position of chairman of the Hydraulic Press Brick Company. The city of St. Louis was growing rapidly and the Eliot's brick firm was becoming very successful. (Unger 567). Thomas Eliot's mother, Charlotte Champe Eliot, came from an affluent family in Massachusetts. In her spare time she wrote several books including a biography of her father-in-law (Sencourt 3). The childhood of Thomas Eliot was especially pampered because he was afflicted with a hernia. His parents wealth allowed them to hire an Irish nurse to look after him. Later when Eliot was to attend grammar schoo
Eliot: The Complete Poems and Plays. His father held strongly to his religious teachings and encouraged his children that through thrift and intelligence, the goal of a Unitarian was to gain success in this world (Sencourt 5-9). " Chronicle of Higher Education 23 Feb. Nearly broke, Eliot was forced to take up residence with Bertrant Russell, a friend from Oxford who was secretly having an affair with Eliot's wife. For several years he served as editor of the Harvard Advocate, who he occasionally wrote poems for. While he was there, he fell in love with the city of Paris, which later became a theme of some of his work. Thomas grew up in a very strict Unitarian household where both his grandfather and uncle were very prominent ministers.
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