T.S. Eliot Biography

Thomas Stearns Eliot was born on September 26, 1888, in St. Louis, Missouri. He was the seventh and last child of Henry Ware Eliot, a brick manufacturer, and Charlotte Eliot, who was a talented poet in his own right. Both parents were descendent from families in England that immigrated to Massachusetts in the seventeenth century. William Greenleaf Eliot, Eliot’s grandfather, moved to St. Louis after he graduated from Harvard in the 1830s. There he became a Unitarian minister, but the connection to New England was maintained through the family’s summer home on the Atlantic coast in Gloucester, Massachusetts.

During his childhood Eliot attended Miss Locke’s Primary School and Smithy Academy in St. Louis. His first poems appeared in the Smith Academy Record in 1905, the year of his graduation. In the year after that he attended Milton academy and then entered into Harvard University. He frequently published in the Harvard Advocate and took courses with professors such as Paul Elmer More and Irving Babbitt.

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When he returned to America, he went back to Harvard to continue his studies in philosophy and also serve as a teaching assistant. His financial security would not be secure until he joined the publishing firm of Faber & Gwyer in 1925. He enjoyed this marriage which consisted of emotional and physical closeness which he had never experienced before. He brought forth what we see poetry as today. Eliot exerted immense amounts of influence in his opinions of the subjects he wrote on. ” The poem combined Eliot’s own insecurity and self-consciousness with a uniform rhythm and with great details and imagery.

Eliot would find himself in England where he would spend the remaining years of his life.

The year 1915 was the year where Eliot saw his first major publication in the June issue of “Poetry” that included his poem “The Love Song of J. In England he met Ezra Pound, on September 22, 1914, who would exert a great amount of influence into his work and his literary career. The stress of his work and complications in his marriage led him to a nervous breakdown in 1921. The next year Eliot would marry Vivien

Haigh-Wood on June 26, 1915, after knowing each other for two months. The fall of 1910 is when he spent a year in Paris writing, reading, soaking up the atmosphere and attending classes at the Sorbonne. Though his opinions of certain subjects may not be the best of interest to the public, his literary works will surpass all those doubts and be known as a influential 20th century poet. Eliot was 68 years old and she was thirty.

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