T.S Eliot

Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in 1888 Missouri, United States. He moved to London at the age of 25 in order to peruse his writing. There Ezra Pound became his mentor and helped him publish "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" in the magazine Poetry in 1915. This drew attention to Eliot's work and in 1917 he published another collection of poems. His most famous piece , The Wast Land published in 1922, is recognized by many to be the most influential poem in the modern era and the 20th century. The Waste Land describes the destroyed modern world that still possesses its beauty. Eliot became one of the most , alone side Yeats, important figures in literature . He received his Noble Prize for literature in 1948. After a incredibly influential life he died in London in 1965.