What is the introduction about Thomas Eliot?

Thomas Eliot (1888-1965) was a British poet and literary critic, winner of the 1948 Nobel Prize for Literature. He was born in St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.A. He entered Harvard University in 1906 to study philosophy and was awarded a Ph.D. ten years later. He gave up his philosophical studies in 1915 and turned to poetry and literary criticism, and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948 for his poem Four Quartets. His major poems include The Love Song of Prufrock (1915), A Lady's Portrait (1915), Little Old Man (1919), The Waste Land (1922), The Hollow Men (1925), Ash Wednesday (1930), and Four Quartets (1935-1941). The best-known poetic drama is Murder in the Cathedral (1935). The most influential literary criticisms are Tradition and Individual Talent (1917), The Function of Criticism (1923), and The Uses of Poetry and the Uses of Criticism (1933).