1916. Eliot was still writing and now teaching, and also was having problems with his marriage; these factors undoubtably, led Elliot to collapsing and being sent to a sanitarium in Switzerland(Longman). He was thought to have suffered from a nervous condition, but was found out later he had 'alboulie'. While in the sanitarium Elliot finished his finest work ever published "The Wasteland". After Eliot's death people drew upon the conclusion that the "The Waste Land" was a mirror of Eliot's
             After Eliot's short lived career as a school teacher, he took a job in a bank in London.
             This career was needed to support Elliot and his wife; however, it was not stimulating enough for Elliot. To keep Eliot's writing a major part of his life, he created a quarterly literary magazine in 1922 entitled The Criterion. This magazine was unique because Elliot allowed a vast array of opinions by his writers. He did not limit writers to his beliefs or views of the time period. This magazine was intended to be original and stir up ideas within people. Due to his position at the bank, Elliot wished for his name to remain anonymous as the editor of the Criterion. In a letter to a fellow co-worker, Edmund Wilson, he asked him to never reveal that he was the editor of The Criterion. Elliot feared that if it was announced that he was editor then it would jeopardize his job at the bank, and he could not afford to lose his job due to the fact he was not receiving payment for his editorship (Margolis 22).
             Elliot had always been far removed from any religious convictions, but in the early 1920's his work started to show some signs of religious beliefs. He was not conscience of this, but evidence was beginning to show in his work. Pound had also turned Eliot onto the works of Dante, and around 1920 he began writing critiques of Dante's work comparing it to Christianity. Eliot als...