Thomas Stearns Eliot is a poet, playwright and literary critic, and he is the leader of poetry modernism movement. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, USA.

Eliot's grandfather is a priest and the former president of this university. My father is in business, and my mother is a poet and has written religious poems. Eliot studied philosophy and comparative literature at Harvard University, was exposed to Sanskrit and oriental culture, was interested in Hegelian philosophers and was also influenced by French symbolism literature. 19 14 years, Eliot met the American poet pound. After the outbreak of World War I, he came to England and settled in London, where he worked as a teacher and bank clerk. 1922 founded the quarterly literary criticism standard, and served as the editor-in-chief until 1939. Eliot thinks he is a royalist in politics, an English Catholic in religion and a classicist in literature. [ 1]

1922 The Wasteland won him an international reputation. It is regarded by critics as the most influential poem in the 20th century and a milestone in modern British and American poetry. 1927, Eliot became a British citizen. The Four Quartet published in 1943 won him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948, and established his position as the greatest living English poet and writer at that time. In his later years, he devoted himself to poetry and drama creation. Eliot died in London on 1965.