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T.S. Eliot: Modernist Poet & Critic

T.S. Eliot was an American-born British poet, playwright, and literary critic considered one of the 20th century's major poets. He is known for works like 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' and 'The Waste Land' which used modernist styles and themes that were new to poetry at the time. Eliot received the 1948 Nobel Prize in Literature and influenced fields like poetry and literary criticism throughout his career.

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T.S. Eliot: Modernist Poet & Critic

T.S. Eliot was an American-born British poet, playwright, and literary critic considered one of the 20th century's major poets. He is known for works like 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' and 'The Waste Land' which used modernist styles and themes that were new to poetry at the time. Eliot received the 1948 Nobel Prize in Literature and influenced fields like poetry and literary criticism throughout his career.

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T S Eliot

Thomas Stearns Eliot OM (26 September 1888 – 4 January 1965) was born in US but later he
renounced his American citizenship and and became a british subject.was a poet, essayist,
publisher, playwright, literary critic and editor.Considered one of the 20th century's major poets,
he is a central figure in English-language Modernist poetry. Through his trials in language,
writing style, and verse structure, he reinvigorated English poetry. He also dismantled outdated
beliefs and established new ones through a collection of critical essays.

T.S Eliot is considered as one of the most important modernist poets. The content of his poem
as well as his poetic style give elements of the modern movement that was famous during his
time. In fact, modernism was viewed as “a rejection of traditional 19th-century norms, whereby
artists, architects, poets and thinkers either altered or abandoned earlier conventions in an
attempt to re-envision a society in flux.” Modernism was also mainly represented by orientation
towards fragmentation, free verse, contradictory allusions and multiple points of view different
from the Victorian and Romantic writing. These modern features appear greatly in the works of
Eliot. Two of the most prominent poems where Eliot shows his modern orientations are “The
Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” and “The Waste Land.”
His other famous works r
The hollow men
Murderer in the cathedral.
He was awarded the 1948 Nobel Prize in Literature, "for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to
present-day poetry".
Eliot also made significant contributions to the field of literary criticism, and strongly influenced
the school of New Criticism.
He died on 4th Jan 1965.

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