Brief introduction of English novelist Eliot

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Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888- 1965) is an English and American poet, playwright and critic. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, his ancestral home is England. My father is a bricklayer and my mother is a poet. From 65438 to 0906, Eliot entered Harvard University to study philosophy and English and French literature, and embarked on the road of symbolic poetry creation. 19 10 went to Paris to study philosophy and literature at the University of Sol. 19 13, teaching assistant, Department of Philosophy, Harvard University. 19 14, went to Oxford University in London to study Greek philosophy. Soon married and settled in England, worked as a teacher, bank clerk and magazine editor. 1922, Standards of Literary Criticism Quarterly was published. 1926, lecturer, Oxford University. 1927, joining the British nationality and the state religion. 1952, director of London Library. 1965 is dead.

Eliot began to write poems from 1909. Pruefer Locke's Love Song (19 17), Poetry (19 19), The Wasteland (1922) and Eliot's Poetry (/kloc) have been published successively. Among them, Pruefer Locke's Love Song is a masterpiece of early poetry; The Wasteland, produced in the middle of creation, is an epoch-making work of western literature in the 20th century and a milestone of modernist poetry. Quartet is a masterpiece of late poetry.

After 1930s, Eliot devoted his main energy to poetic drama creation. His major works include Murder of the Cathedral (1935), Family Reunion (1539), Cocktail Party (1950), Confidential Secretary (1954) and Political Veteran.

Eliot is also one of the founders of New Criticism in Britain and America. His major works are Tradition and Individual Talent (19 17), Poets of Metaliterature School (192 1), The Role of Criticism (1923), The Effect of Poetry and Criticism, etc.

Eliot claimed to be a royalist in politics, an English Catholic in religion and a classicist in literature. His cultural thought belongs to the category of neo-scholasticism and monasticism, and he advocates taking religion as the political and cultural center and saving the civilization crisis of western capitalism with "religious revival". Eliot's literary creation and critical works played a pioneering role in British and American modernist literature and new critical theory in the 20th century. He was known as the "master of modern literary criticism" and once became a leading figure in British and American poetry circles.

1948, Eliot won the Nobel Prize in Literature for his outstanding contribution and pioneering role in contemporary poetry.