Tham khảo tài liệu 'luyện dịch tiếng anh và tìm hiểu văn chương anh part 10', ngoại ngữ, anh ngữ phổ thông phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | THOMAS STERN ELIOT 1888 - 1965 . Eliot a poet literary critic and modern playwright was born in St. Louis Missouri 1888 . He graduated at Harvard University at the age of 22 and afterwards went to Europe to follow his studies in Paris and London. He began to write verse at 20. When he was in France he found in French symbolists especially in Laforgue the essential quality of transmuting ideas into sensations . He later settled in London and took British nationality in 1927. His first volume of verse Prufrock and other Obversations was published in 1917 and his first essay on Tradition came out in the same year. His most celebrated poem The Waste Land 1922 is a powerful indictment of the spiritual hollowness of society. In 1930 he turned his pen to the poetic drama. In this field he has shown himself an exceptional technician as well as an undeviating pleader for renewed philosophical and religious values. His Murder in the cathedral an essay and poetic play was forcefully dramatized his religious convictions. This play probably lacked a good plot but the defect was partly compensated by poetic excellence. The four Quarters 1943 is a continuation of his examinations into the nature of Memory and Time but 372 the mood is less pessimistic than that of The fftore Land. Then came out the highly successful Cocktail Party 1950 and The Confidential Clerk 1955 . TS. Eliot still has .some more critical works The Use of Poetty and lhe Use ofCriticism 1933 Essays-AncienlandModem 1936 What is Classic 1945 Therefore Eliot is also known as a Jhtented essqdst Elliot a great cxpcrimcntalistin verse has expressed bis views in several essays. . Eliot was awarded the 1948 Nobel prize for literature SUMMARY . ELĨơr 1888-. is a famous poet literary critic and modern playwright Though Amcrican-born be became a British subject in 1927. lie graduated at Harvard University and studied in France and England. .He wrote several vohunes of poems and essays and later turned to poetic .
