T.S. Eliot 3
T.S. Eliot was a poet, critic, and an editor. He was a major figure in English poetry, famous for works such as “The Waste Land,” and “The Sacred Wood.” His critical essays helped to start a movement of literary modernism by stressing tradition, along with objective discipline. Eliot, along with the help of William Butler Yeats, and Ezra Pound set new poetic standards by rejecting the English romantics. Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in St. Louis, MO. on September 26th, 1888. He was the youngest child in a family that had seven children, and very well known ancestors. Some of these ancestors include Reverend William Greenleaf Eliot, who founded Washington University in St. Louis, and Isaac Stearns, who was one of the original settlers of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Eliot’s father Henry Ware Eliot, was a prosperous industrialist, and his mother, Charlotte Eliot, was a writer. He attended school at Smith Academy in St. Louis, and Milton Academy in Massachusetts. Growing up with so many older people helped him to gain a high sense of maturity, even at such a young age. He also became more mature through the different cultural, and community interests that his parents had. He even more
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Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)
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