Introduction to TS Eliot

English poet and literary critic. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. Grandfather is the founder of Washington University, his father is in business, and his mother is enthusiastic about charity and engaged in poetry creation. Eliot entered Harvard University in 1906 to study philosophy, during which he also studied the works of poets Donne and Dante and playwright Elizabeth and James, which played an important role in his later literary criticism. 1908, he came into contact with French modernist poetry from the book Symbolic Movement of Literature written by Simmons (1865- 1945), which influenced his writing in1915-1. When World War I broke out, he studied Greek philosophy at Oxford University in England, and completed his doctoral thesis on Bradley's philosophy of British neo-Hegelian school at Harvard University on 19 16. 19 15 is a major turning point in his life: he gave up philosophical research as his lifelong career and turned to poetry creation and literary criticism. After living in London, he first taught Latin and French, worked as a bank clerk from 19 19 to 1922, and served as the deputy editor-in-chief of self-centered magazine. Since l922, he has been the editor-in-chief of Standard, a quarterly literary criticism with world influence, and stopped publishing at 1939. He was a director of Faber Publishing Company from 1925 until his death. 1927 He became a British citizen and joined the Anglican Church, claiming to be "a classicist in literature, a royalist in politics and a British Catholic in religion". 1947 received an honorary doctorate from Harvard University, and 1948 won the Nobel Prize in Literature for his poem Quartet.

Eliot is regarded as the most influential English poet before the Second World War, and he played a pioneering role in British and American modernist literature and new criticism's criticism. His main poems are Pruefer Locke's Love Song (19 15), Portrait of a Lady (19 15), Little Old Man (19 19), etc. The most famous poetic drama is Murder in the Cathedral (1935). The most influential literary comments are tradition and personal talent (19 17), the role of criticism (1923) and the use of poetry and criticism (1933).