Eliot was the last of six surviving children. His mother, Charlotte Champe Stearns (1843–1929), who wrote poetry, was a social worker, which was a new profession in the U.S. His father, Henry Ware Eliot (1843–1919), was a successful businessman, president and treasurer of the Hydraulic-Press Brick Company in St Louis. Louis, Missouri, to establish a Unitarian Christian church there. Eliot's paternal grandfather, William Greenleaf Eliot, had moved to St. The Eliots were a Boston Brahmin family, with roots in England and New England. He was awarded the 1948 Nobel Prize in Literature, 'for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry'.

He was also known for seven plays, particularly Murder in the Cathedral (1935) and The Cocktail Party (1949). It was followed by The Waste Land (1922), ' The Hollow Men' (1925), ' Ash Wednesday' (1930), and Four Quartets (1943). Alfred Prufrock' from 1914 to 1915, which, at the time of its publication, was considered outlandish. Įliot first attracted widespread attention for his poem ' The Love Song of J. He became a British citizen in 1927 at the age of 39 and renounced his American citizenship. Louis, Missouri, to a prominent Boston Brahmin family, he moved to England in 1914 at the age of 25 and went on to settle, work, and marry there. He also dismantled outdated beliefs and established new ones through a collection of critical essays. Through his trials in language, writing style, and verse structure, he reinvigorated English poetry. Considered one of the 20th century's major poets, he is a central figure in English-language Modernist poetry. Thomas Stearns Eliot OM (26 September 1888 – 4 January 1965) was a poet, essayist, publisher, playwright, literary critic and editor.

Four quartets poet