T.S. Elliot

Question 1 & 2

• He was born in the 1800’s
• He wrote poems, plays

Question 3

• Example: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

Question 4

• He had to overcome physical limitations as a child; His father was a successful businessman, president and treasurer of the Hydraulic-Press Brick Company in St. Louis

Question 5

• He began to write poetry when he was fourteen under the influence of Edward Fitzgerald's Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, a translation of the poetry of Omar Khayyam

Question 6

• Eliot tradition is a living organism comprising past and present in constant mutual interaction

Question 7

• Has been one of the most daring innovators of twentieth-century poetry.

source

• "T.S. Eliot - Biographical." T.S. Eliot - Biographical. N.p., n.d. Web. 07 Jan. 2016.