T.S. Eliot Biography
Thomas Stearns Eliot was born on September 26, 1888, in St. Louis, Missouri. He was the seventh and last child of Henry Ware Eliot, a brick manufacturer, and Charlotte Eliot, who was a talented poet in his own right. Both parents were descendent from families in England that immigrated to Massachusetts in the seventeenth century. William Greenleaf Eliot, Eliot's grandfather, moved to St. Louis after he graduated from Harvard in the 1830s. There he became a Unitarian minister, but the connection to New England was maintained through the family's summer home on the Atlantic coast in Gloucester, Massachusetts. During his childhood Eliot attended Miss Locke's Primary School and Smithy Academy in St. Louis. His first poems appeared in the Smith Academy Record in 1905, the year of his graduation. In the year after that he attended Milton academy and then entered into Harvard University. He frequently published in the Harvard Advocate and took courses with professors such as Paul Elmer More and Irving Babbitt.
1909 Eliot received his B.A. and stayed in Harvard to earn his master's degree in English literature, which he received the following year. The fall of 1910 is when he spent a year in Paris writing, reading, soaking up the atmosphere and attending classes at the Sorbonne. When he returned to America, he went back to Harvard to continue his studies in philosophy and also serve as a teaching assistant. After being awarded a traveling fellowship for the year of 1914-1915, he had planed to study in Germany, but the start of World War I forced him to leave the country early. Eliot's influence on modern poetry is easily recognized. He brought forth what we see poetry as today. Though his opinions of certain subjects may not be the best of interest to the public, his literary works will surpass all those doubts and be known as a influential 20th century poet. After being divorced from Vivien in 1933 Eliot lived a lonely life. However in January of 1957 he shocked everyone when he married Valerie Fletcher, his secretary
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