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Thomas Sterns
Eliot was born in 1888 in St.Louis, Missouri. He won the Nobel
Prize for LIterature in 1948, He is wildely honored for his poetry,
criticsm, essays, and plays. His work has influenced numerous
poets, He is prehaps best known for "The Waste Land."
He was known for his departure from techniques and subject matter
of pre-World War I poetry. He helped reshape modern literature.
He studied at Harvard, Sorbonne, and Oxford. His poems came to
the attention of Ezra Pound, who helped him with his poetry. |