T. S. Eliot

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editor essayist human literary critic modernist writer playwright poet

T. S. Eliot was a seminal 20th-century poet, critic, and playwright, best known for works such as "The Waste Land" and "Four Quartets," which profoundly influenced modernist literature.

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Thomas Stearns Eliot	4
Old Possum (Eliot's nickname from Ezra Pound)	1
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the work of T. S. Eliot	1

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	editor ⓘ essayist ⓘ human ⓘ literary critic ⓘ modernist writer ⓘ playwright ⓘ poet ⓘ
awardReceived	Nobel Prize in Literature ⓘ Order of Merit ⓘ Tony Award ⓘ surface form: Tony Award for Best Play
burialPlace	St Michael and All Angels' Church, East Coker ⓘ
causeOfDeath	emphysema ⓘ
convertedFrom	Unitarianism ⓘ
convertedTo	Anglican Communion ⓘ surface form: Anglicanism
countryOfCitizenship	United Kingdom ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
dateOfBirth	1888-09-26 ⓘ
dateOfDeath	1965-01-04 ⓘ
describedBySource	The Waste Land and Four Quartets profoundly influenced modernist literature ⓘ
educatedAt	Harvard University ⓘ Merton College, Oxford ⓘ Sorbonne University ⓘ
employer	Faber and Faber ⓘ
familyName	T. S. Eliot self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Eliot
fullName	T. S. Eliot self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Thomas Stearns Eliot
genre	drama ⓘ literary criticism ⓘ poetry ⓘ
givenName	Stearns ⓘ Thomas ⓘ
hasSignature	T. S. Eliot signature ⓘ
influenced	Ezra Pound ⓘ Samuel Beckett ⓘ Seamus Heaney ⓘ Sylvia Plath ⓘ Ted Hughes ⓘ W. H. Auden ⓘ
influencedBy	Charles Baudelaire ⓘ Dante Alighieri ⓘ Jules Laforgue ⓘ T. E. Hulme ⓘ William Shakespeare ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName	English ⓘ
marriageEnd	Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot ⓘ
marriageStart	1915-06-26 ⓘ 1957-01-10 ⓘ
movement	Modernism ⓘ
NobelPrizeYear	1948 ⓘ
notableWork	Ash-Wednesday ⓘ Four Quartets ⓘ Murder in the Cathedral ⓘ Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats ⓘ The Cocktail Party ⓘ The Hollow Men ⓘ The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock ⓘ The Waste Land ⓘ
occupation	literary critic ⓘ playwright ⓘ poet ⓘ publisher ⓘ
placeOfBirth	St. Louis, Missouri, United States ⓘ
placeOfDeath	London, England ⓘ surface form: London, England, United Kingdom
religion	Anglicanism ⓘ
residence	Cambridge, Massachusetts ⓘ surface form: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States London, England ⓘ surface form: London, England, United Kingdom
spouse	Esme Valerie Fletcher ⓘ Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot ⓘ

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Arthur Rimbaud → influenced → T. S. Eliot ⓘ

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Irving Babbitt → influenced → T. S. Eliot ⓘ

John Milton → influenced → T. S. Eliot ⓘ

Joseph Conrad → influenced → T. S. Eliot ⓘ

Jules Laforgue → influenced → T. S. Eliot ⓘ

Rudyard Kipling → influenced → T. S. Eliot ⓘ

Stéphane Mallarmé → influenced → T. S. Eliot ⓘ

T. E. Hulme → influenced → T. S. Eliot ⓘ

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W.B. Yeats → influenced → T. S. Eliot ⓘ

Walt Whitman → influenced → T. S. Eliot ⓘ

Hart Crane → influencedBy → T. S. Eliot ⓘ

Ralph Ellison → influencedBy → T. S. Eliot ⓘ

Russell Kirk → influencedBy → T. S. Eliot ⓘ

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