Notes on some figures behind T.S. Eliot

by Herbert Howarth

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Published 1964 by Houghton Mifflin Co., Riverside Press in Boston, Cambridge .
Written in English

Subjects:

• Eliot, T. S. 1888-1965.

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Statement	Herbert Howard.
Classifications
LC Classifications	PS3509.L43 Z684
The Physical Object
Pagination	xii, 396 p. ;
Number of Pages	396
ID Numbers
Open Library	OL5848631M
LC Control Number	62008139
OCLC/WorldCa	284065

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Thomas Stearns Eliot OM (26 September – 4 January ) was a poet, essayist, publisher, playwright, literary critic and editor. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, to a prominent Boston Brahmin family, he moved to England in at the age of 25 and went on to settle, work and marry there. He became a British subject in at the age of 39, subsequently renouncing his American : Thomas Stearns Eliot, 26 September , St. . A member of the Romantic tradition, T.S. Eliot is considered a central figure in Western literary culture. He is said to have created some of the best poetry of the 20th century. Study Eliot with this text, which includes an extensive biography of the aut.

Josiah Royce’s Seminar, – as recorded in the notebooks of Harry T. Costello, ed. Grover Smith (Brunswick, New Jersey, ).Grover Smith claims that all traces of Eliot’s paper have disappeared, but in fact the entire MS of the paper given on 9 December is in the John Hayward Bequest of T. S. Eliot material in King’s College Library, : Piers Gray, Colin MacCabe, Victoria Rothschild. T. S. Eliot: (Thomas Stearns Eliot), –, American-British poet and critic, b. St. Louis, Mo. One of the most distinguished literary figures of the 20th cent., T. S. Eliot won the Nobel Prize in Literature. He studied at Harvard, the Sorbonne, and Oxford. In he established residence in London and in became a British subject. While T.S. Eliot never made any comments critical of Charles Darwin or his theory of the evolution of species, he was quite critical of various popularized versions of Darwin’s theory that exaggerated its explanatory power and extrapolated from it into metaphysical, moral, historical, and socio-political spheres where, in his view, it had no authority.

Eliot family Henry Ware Eliot, the father of T. S. Eliot, became chairman of the board of a brick company and served the schools and charities his father had helped found, as well as others. He married a New Englander, Charlotte Champ.   While T.S. Eliot never made any comments critical of Charles Darwin or his theory of the evolution of species, he was quite critical of various popularized versions of Darwin’s theory that exaggerated its explanatory power and extrapolated from it into metaphysical, moral, historical, and socio-political spheres where, in his view, it had no authority. 8 This poem is briefly discussed in Herbert Howarth, Notes on Some Figures Behind T. S. Eliot (Boston, ; London, ), pp. For an annotated bibliography of books and articles () in English, see Mildred Martin, A Half-Century of Eliot Criticism (Lewisburg, Pa., T. S. Eliot and Music: An Introduction.