Eliot adopted British citizenship in 1927 and became a devoted member of the Anglican Church. His subsequent literary and critical works would reflect a growing political and religious conservatism. Eliot won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1948, married his second wife, Valerie Fletcher, in 1957, and died in 1965. The Waste Land remains one of the most dramatic expressions of the atmosphere pervading Britain after the First World War.
World War I. T. S. Eliot left Marburg, Germany, in early August 1914 just as World War I began. Since Harvard had awarded him a travel grant, he went to England and taught there at Oxford University. As a citizen of the United States, which would not enter the war until April 1917, the poet had a unique perspective on the toll it was taking on England and her people. Food had already become scarce when he arrived in London, and it was impossible to overlook the newspaper headlines announcing the tremendous numbers of British causalities.
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