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T. S. Eliot (1888–1965) was an American-born, British poet, playwright, and critic, widely regarded as a defining voice of literary modernism. Educated at Harvard and settled in London, he worked as an editor at Faber & Faber and became a British citizen in 1927. His rigorous criticism and innovative verse earned him the Nobel Prize in Literature (1948) for his outstanding, pioneering contribution to contemporary poetry.

Eliot’s early breakthrough came with The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915), a dramatic monologue that crystallizes modern alienation and interior doubt. He followed with The Waste Land (1922), a collage of voices, myths, and languages that forged a new, allusive method for twentieth-century poetry, and with The Hollow Men (1925), a bleak meditation on spiritual exhaustion.

His later masterpiece, Four Quartets (1935–1942), offers philosophical meditations on time, faith, and redemption, blending lyric intensity with musical structure. As a dramatist, he revitalized verse drama with Murder in the Cathedral (1935) and later plays such as The Family Reunion and The Cocktail Party.

Beyond poetry and theater, Eliot shaped twentieth-century criticism: essays like “Tradition and the Individual Talent” (1919) and the collection The Sacred Wood (1920) articulated standards of form, tradition, and impersonality. He also published the light-footed Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats (1939), showing a playful side that complements his austere public image.