T. S. Eliot

Biography

T. S. Eliot (1888 – 1965) authored dozens of books of criticism and poetry, most famously Four Quartets (Harcourt, Brace, 1943), The Waste Land (Boni & Liveright, 1922), and Prufrock, and Other Observations (Egoist, 1917). He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948 and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1963. Eliot’s essays on poetry, such as “Tradition and the Individual Talent,” are considered classics of modernist poetry theory.

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POETRY / Spring 1934

Words for Music

By T. S. Eliot

Children’s voices in the orchard
Between the blossom- and the fruit-time:
Golden head, crimson head,

ESSAYS / Winter 1934

Personality and Demonic Possession

By T. S. Eliot

For modern blasphemy is merely a department of bad form: and just as, in countries which still possess a Crown, people are usually (and quite rightly) shocked by any public impertinence concerning any member of their Royal Family, they are...