T. S. Eliot

The banker-editor who wrote modernism's two most famous poems and then its critical rules.

Specifications & Metrics

era

1888 – 1965

language

English

region

St Louis to London

notable works

The Waste Land, Prufrock, Four Quartets, Murder in the Cathedral

Core Principles & Analysis

• He worked at Lloyds Bank before directing the publisher Faber & Faber.
• The Waste Land (1922) was edited down drastically by Pound, 'il miglior fabbro'.
• He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948.

Sources

• Wikipedia: T. S. Eliot