Eliot, Thomas Stearns(1888–1964)
Thomas Stearns Eliot is best known as a poet and literary critic (he received the Nobel Prize for literature in 1948), but his work in social and cultural theor...
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"In ten years' time," Edmund Wilson wrote in Axel's Castle, "Eliot has left upon English poetry a mark more unmistakable than any other poet writing in the English language." Recognized as the most im...
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Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965), American-English author, was one of the most influential poets writing in English in the 20th century, one of the most seminal critics, an interesting playwright, and...
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T.S. Eliot 's contributions to twentieth-century literature are complex, far reaching, and of perhaps greater import than those of any other major literary figure of the period. His poems created a re...
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The impact of T. S. Eliot on modern literature is an almost unique literary phenomenon. An American by birth and education, Eliot came to dominate English literary life with a completeness rivaled o...
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T. S. Eliot is one of the giants of modern literature, highly distinguished as poet, literary critic, dramatist, and editor/publisher. In 1910-1911, while still a student, he wrote "The Love Song of ...
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No name is more closely associated with the course of modern poetry and literary criticism than that of T. S. Eliot, for no writer has had a greater hand in shaping the sensibilities, expectations, an...
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T. S. Eliot was one of the most important poets of the Modernist movement and is only secondarily remembered as a playwright. However, his work for the stage constitutes a significant part of his care...
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Biography EssayT. S. Eliot is one of the giants of modern literature, highly distinguished as poet, literary critic, dramatist, and editor/publisher. In 1910-1911, while still a student, he wrote "The...
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Essay Question: What have you learned about the human condition? Support this through one poem, one class text and one outside text.
By a study a variety of texts, it is evident that the concept of...
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Hysteria, Eliot's short discussion of a speaker's descriptions and reactions to his woman companion's laughter, examines loosely the seductive quality of hysteria. Conceivably influenced by Freud's ps...
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Discuss how `The Human condition' is explored by Eliot in `The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' as a struggle for fulfillment in a meaningless world.
The `Human condition' as a struggle for fulfillme...
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In "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," T. S. Eliot reveals the silent insecurity of a man, for whom the passing of time indicates the loss of virility and confidence. Throughout the poem, Prufrock...
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