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Also Known As Thomas Stearns Eliot
Born September 26, 1888 • Saint Louis • Missouri
Died January 4, 1965 (aged 76) • London • England
Founder “The Criterion”
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1948)
Notable Works “Ash Wednesday” • “Burnt Norton” • “East Coker” • “Little Gidding” • “Murder in the Cathedral” • “Notes Towards the Definition of Culture” • “Prufrock and Other Observations” • “Sweeney Agonistes” • “The Confidential Clerk” • “The Dry Salvages” • “The Elder Statesman” • “The Family Reunion” • “Four Quartets” • “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” • “The Metaphysical Poets” • “The Sacred Wood” • “The Waste Land” • “Tradition and the Individual Talent”
Movement / Style Modernism • New Criticism
Subjects Of Study Metaphysical poets • poetry

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