Biography
Type: Poet, dramatist, literary critic, editor
Born: 26 September 1888
Died: 4 January 1965
Eliot attracted widespread attention for his poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (1915), which was seen as a masterpiece of the Modernist movement. It was followed by some of the best-known poems in the English language, including "The Waste Land" (1922), "The Hollow Men" (1925), "Ash Wednesday" (1930), and "Four Quartets" (1945). He was also known for his seven plays, particularly "Murder in the Cathedral" (1935). He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948, "for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry".
Selected bibliography:
- Poetry
- Prufrock and Other Observations (1917)
- The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
- Portrait of a Lady
- Preludes
- Rhapsody on a Windy Night
- Morning at the Window
- The Boston Evening Transcript (about the Boston Evening Transcript)
- Aunt Helen
- Cousin Nancy
- Mr. Apollinax (a sketch of Bertrand Russell)
- Hysteria
- Conversation Galante
- La Figlia Che Piange
- Poems (1920)
- Gerontion
- Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar
- Sweeney Erect
- A Cooking Egg
- Le Directeur
- Mélange Adultère de Tout
- Lune de Miel
- The Hippopotamus
- Dans le Restaurant
- Whispers of Immortality
- Mr. Eliot's Sunday Morning Service
- Sweeney Among the Nightingales
- Plays
- Sweeney Agonistes (published in 1926, first performed in 1934)
- The Rock (1934)
- Murder in the Cathedral (1935)
- The Family Reunion (1939)
- The Cocktail Party (1949)
- The Confidential Clerk (1953)
- The Elder Statesman (first performed in 1958, published in 1959)
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