T.S Eliot, essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic, was born #onthisday 1888 in St Louis Missouri. Happy birthday to this incredible savant and polymath who conquered everything in English Literature.
Eliot attracted widespread attention for his poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (1915), which was seen as a masterpiece of the Modernist movement. It was followed by some of the best-known poems in the English language, including The Waste Land (1922), "The Hollow Men" (1925), "Ash Wednesday" (1930), and Four Quartets (1943). He was also known for his seven plays, particularly Murder in the Cathedral (1935) and The Cocktail Party (1949).
He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948, "for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry".
"Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things." - T. S. Eliot.
#proudtobeEliotic. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🎂- Sarbadaman_Writes ✍🏻
26 SEP 2018 AT 22:35