The Sacred Wood and Began the Waste Land by T.S. Eliot

T.S. Eliot was one of many award winning book writers. T.S. Eliot was known as a ‘’hard working writer.’’ He published his first book in 1915, starting off his career as a writer/poet.

T.S. Eliot was born September 26, 1888 in St. Louis. He was the youngest of seven born to Henry Ware Eliot and Charlotte Eliot. In 1906–10, undergraduate at Harvard. He discovered the Symbolists and Lafarge. He was in editor of the Harvard Advocate, a literary magazine. In 1911-14 he was in graduate student in philosophy at Harvard.

In 1914 he settled in England where his poems came to the attention of the American poet Ezra Portland. He studied at the University of Marbury, Germany, cut off by war. He resided at Merton College, Oxford. He published in poetry in Chicago. A blast in England in 1915.

In 1917, He was in Employee of Lloyd’s bank. Assistant Editor of the Egoist. In 1920 he writesa poem called The Sacred Wood and Began the Waste Land. In 1922 Editor of the Criterion, until its closure in 1939. Dial award for The Waste Land. In 1924 he published ‘The Four Elizabethan Dramatists’. In 1925 he published The Hollow Men and poems, in 1909-25.

Eliot joined Faber and Gayer, later and Faber, publishers. In 1926, Two “Fragments” (of Sweeney Agonists). In 1927 – 31, he became a member of the Church of England and the British citizen. He made Ariel Poems during 1927 - 31. For Lancelot Andrews, 1928, Ash – Wednesday, 1930, Coriolan, 1931. Thoughts After Lambeth, 1931. Through the years 1923 and 1933, T. S. had his first visit to America since 1914. He delivered Charles Eliot Norton lectures at Harvard. They were published as the Use of Poetry and the use of criticism in 1933. He also delivered the Page Barbour lectures at the University of Virginia....

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...iest poetry was published in the Smith Academy Record in 1905 (James 1). Eliot’s first major poem, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” revealed his original and highly developed style. His “Ash Wednesday”, which was published in 1930, was far from different from The Waste Land in tone and mood. It was more musical emphasis; tentatively hopeful (Harmon 1).

His whole life was full of writing lectures and poems. He was a very hard worker at writing. And he was very good at what he did.

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