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T.S. Eliot's Life and works

T.S. Eliot

Thomas Sterns Eliot
was born on 26 september 1888 at st. Louis Missouri an industrial town  in USA . His grandfather established unitarian church at St. Louis. He was a man at academic interest and in course of time, he became the founder of washington University in America. The Poet's father was a successful breaks traders. He married Charlotte Sterns who herself was an educated woman of very interest. T.S. Eliot interested in his scholarly business quality from his parent. 

Primary Education :
He was successful education at St. Louis school and from  their to Howard University from the very beginning, He was an intelligent student and began written at a tender age. The poet of Howard , he was very genius . He staged from 1906-1910 there. he went France after graduating from the Howard University from their  he went to Germany where he came in contact with contemporary writers and studies their works. The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock (1917) was written in a student year in perish.

Financial Difficulties :
In 20th Century industrial was its prime. The structure of society was a matter of by gone day and Capitalist Socio Economic has taken its place. The first world war accelerated the match of industrialization. Thomas Eliot was not Exception to it , due to out break at war Eliot was leave Germany from where he came England to continue his profession.

Career
While working in as a school teacher and in the bank he was writing Jenoal. He worded assistant manager. The egoist he was working as and Editor in 1922 that he published the West Land (1922) which brought him name and fame. He was a great poet, he won the novel prize for Literature in 1948. Eliot tried his hand in almost all the branch of literature. T.S. Eliot died on 4 january 1965.

Journalism :
T. S. Eliot was an Editor the Egoist. He published several magazine and journals. 

Poetry :
Eliot's carrier was a most famous poet may be divided into five phases or periods.
1. The first phase (1905-1909)
2. The 2nd phase :-
                                        He began writing poetry at early age the poems at this period(1909-1917) were published in a collective form a named "Profrock" and other observation :

i)  The Love Song Of J Alfred Profrock
ii) The  Portrait of a Lady 
iii) Preludes
iv) The Boston Evening Transcript
v) Mr. Apollinax.

3. The 3rd phase (1918-1925) :

i) a cooking egg
ii) Sweeney among the nightingales
iii) the wasteland 1922
iv) the hollow men 1925

4. The 4th phase (1925 to 1935) :

This is the period of billiards Christian poetry that joined the Anglican church at England in 1927.

i) SAS Wednesday 1930
ii) Journey of the the may
iii) Animula 1929
iv) Marina 1930
v) The Rock
vi) coriolanous

5. The 5th phase (1935 to 1943) :

This is a period for quarter which were published as follow :

i) Burton Norton
ii) East cooker
iii) The dry salvages
iv) little gidding

** Prose : -
  • The use of poetry and the use of criticism 1933
  •  the idea of a Christian society in 1939
  • Selected essays 1932
  • On poetry and poets 1943
  • Tradition and individual talent 1920
  • Poetry and drama 1931
  • The function of Criticism
  • The frontier of criticism 1956
** Poetic Play : -
  • The Rock
  • Murder in the cathedral 1935
  • The family e reunion 1939
  • The cocktail party 1949
  • The confidential clerk 1953
  • The elder stateman 1959

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