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T.S. Eliot was a twentieth century modernist poet and playwright.

When and Where was he Born?

26th September 1888, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America.

Family Background:

Thomas Stearns Eliot was the youngest of six children and son of Henry Ware Eliot, a brick manufacturer and wealthy businessman and Charlotte Champe Stearns, a teacher.

Education:

The Smith Academy Preparatory School, Mrs Lockwood’s Academy, St.

Louis, Missouri. Milton College, near Boston, Massachusetts, Harvard University, USA, Sorbonne, Paris, France and Merton College, Oxford.

Timeline of T.S. Eliot

1899: Eliot brings out eight issues of his own magazine “The Fireside” whilst still at School.

1905: His poems for the “Smith Academy Record” are the earliest poems of his still surviving.

1906: He attends Harvard University.

1908:He becomes interested in the Symbolists in literature and is particularly influenced by Laforgue.

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