T. S. Eliot

Person · Open Library

Born

26 September 1888

Died

4 January 1965

Works

1150

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United Kingdom

Active from

1888-09-26

Active to

1965-01-04

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Listeners

5,470

Total plays

39,310

Thomas Stearns Eliot,(September 26, 1888 – January 4, 1965) was an American-born British poet, dramatist, and literary critic, whose works, such as The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, The Waste Land, and Four Quartets, are considered defining achievements of twentieth century Modernist poetry. In 1948 he won the Nobel Prize for Literature. He was one of the most influential poets of the 20th century. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/T.+S.+Eliot">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Quotes

• “Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.”
• “Atheism should always be encouraged (i.e. rationalistic not emotional atheism) for the sake of the Faith.”
• “Mr. Aldous Huxley, who is perhaps one of those people who have to perpetrate thirty bad novels before producing a good one, has a certain natural — but little developed — aptitude for seriousness.”
• “A dangerous person to disagree with.”
• “‘A cold coming we had of it,Just the worst time of the yearFor a journey, and such a long journey:The ways deep and the weather sharp,The very dead of winter.’”
• “There were times we regrettedThe summer palaces on slopes, the terraces,And the silken girls bringing sherbet.”

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🏅Nobel Prize

• The Nobel Prize in Literature1948

  “for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry”