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T. S. Eliot
1888–1965
Let us go then, you and I
T. S. Eliot was born in 1888 in St Louis, Missouri, educated at Harvard – contracted an unhappy marriage with an Englishwoman, Vivien Haigh-Wood – and ended up in London. Of the little poetry he wrote, most of the famous things had appeared before he was thirty-four, including The Waste Land, generally considered the greatest poem of the twentieth century. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948, and died in 1965.
For more about The Life of T. S. Eliot, read his biographer Lyndall Gordon at tseliot.com.
Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but the escape from personality.
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