Thomas stearns eliot

Thomas Stearns Eliot

Biography
T.S.Eliot (1888-1965) was born in St. Louis. His father, Henry Ware Eliot (1843–1919), was a successful businessman, president and his mother, Charlotte Champe Stearns (1843–1929) wrote poetry and was a social worker. He was educated at Harvard and did graduate work in philosophy at the Sorbonne, Harvard, and Merton College, Oxford. He settled in England, where he was for a time a schoolmaster and a bank clerk, and eventually literary editor for the publishing house Faber & Faber, of which he later became a director. He founded and, during the seventeen years of its publication (1922-1939), edited the exclusive and influential literary journal Criterion.
His influence on modern poetic diction has been immense. Eliot's poetry: * Prufrock (1917) * The Waste Land (1922) * Ash Wednesday(1930) * Murder in the Cathedral (1935) * The Family Reunion (1939) * Four Quartets (1943) * Definition of Culture(1948) * The Cocktail Party(1949) * The Confidential Clerk (1954) * The Elder Statesman(1959)

In 1948 he won the Nobel Prize of Literature, and Order of Merit, in 1948 too.
T.S. Eliot died on January 4, 1965.

Modernism
Modernism is a modern thought, character, or practice. The term describes the modernist movement in the arts.
In art, the modernism refuse the ideology of realism, and makes use of the works of the past, through the application of reprise, incorporation, rewriting, recapitulation, revision and parody in new forms.
In general, the term modernism includes the activities and output of those who felt the "traditional" forms of art, architecture, literature, religious faith, social organization and daily life were becoming outdated in the new economic, social, and political conditions of an emerging fully industrialized world.
By 1930, Modernism had entered popular culture. With the increasing urbanization of populations, it was beginning to be looked to as the source for