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T.S.Eliot

T.S.Eliot. T.S. Eliot. Born St. Louis, MO - 1888 Summer spent in New England Both urban and rural background Entered Harvard - 1906 Studied French Lit and Philosophy Masters in English lit 1910 Ph.D. Philosophy 1916 Sorbonne, Harvard, Marburg, and Oxford Friends with Ezra Pound

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T.S.Eliot

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  1. T.S.Eliot

  2. T.S. Eliot • Born St. Louis, MO - 1888 • Summer spent in New England • Both urban and rural background • Entered Harvard - 1906 • Studied French Lit and Philosophy • Masters in English lit 1910 • Ph.D. Philosophy 1916 Sorbonne, Harvard, Marburg, and Oxford • Friends with Ezra Pound • Married Vivien Haigh-Wood - 1915

  3. T.S.Eliot cont… • The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock -1917 • Breakdown 1921 • The Waste Land - 1922 • Became British Subject - 1927 • Lectured - 1930’s • Nobel Prize for Literature - 1948 • Order of Merit by George VI - 1948 • Died - 1965

  4. Style • Experimented with: • Meter • Imagery • diction • Devoted himself: • Creating new dramatic verse

  5. Style cont.. • Characterization • Flat • Stylized • Symbolic • Universal • Timeless

  6. Themes • Time • Death • Rebirth • Levels of Love • Quest motif • Psychological • Metaphysical • aesthetic

  7. Themes cont… • Alienation • Loneliness • The concept of the “urban wasteland” • Nihilism • Religious Conviction • Hopelessness of existence

  8. Influenced by: • Lord Alfred Tennyson • Henry James • Erza Pound • Matthew Arnold • Charles Baudelaire • Edgar Allan Poe • Laforgue

  9. Writers influenced by: • Dylan Thomas • Theodore Roethke • Sylvia Plath • John Berryman • Post-Modernist movement • Fugitive School • Allen Tate • John Crowe Ransom

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