T.S. Eliot艾略特.pptVIP

T.S. Eliot Personal experience Literary contributions Themes Writing style Social significance Influence (By and On) Personal experience T.S. Eliot was born in St. Louis, Missouri, where his grandfather had helped to found the university of Washington. Both of his parents were cultured people so that young Eliot received a good education, especially in classic literature. He went to Harvard in 1906 to study under such eminent scholars as George Santayana(1863-1952), barrette Wendell, and Irving babbitt(1865-1933) whose neo-humanism had a great influence on his intellectual growth. After he received his M.A. degree in Harvard and had studied in Paris and Oxford, he settled down in1915 in England, teaching, working as a bank clerk, writing book reviews for publishers. For two years(1917-1919)Eliot was editor of the egoist, founded the criterion in 1922,and was its editor until 1939 . He won the Nobel Prize for literature. His works The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock 杰·阿尔弗雷德 ·普鲁弗洛克的情歌 1911 Gerontion 小老头 1920 The Waste Land 荒原 1922 Hollow Man 空心人 1925 Ash Wednesday 圣灰星期三 1930 Four Quartets 四个四重奏 1943 Burnt Norton 被烧毁的诺顿 East Color 东科克 The Dry Salvages 干燥的塞尔维吉斯 Little Gidding 小吉丁 Sweeney Agonistes 力士斯维尼 Murder in the cathedral 大教堂凶杀案 The cocktail party 鸡尾酒会 The sacred wood 圣林 Elizabethan essays 伊丽莎白时代论说文 Literary contribution Eliot became, by 1925, the acknowledged leader of the new verse and criticism both in America and great Britain. It is no exaggeration to state that he was the most successful literary dictator in American literary history, one who wielded the most decisive influence over literary development for a long time. “the waste land” which revealing as it does the spiritual crisis of postwar Europe, read like the manifest of the “lost generation” and established Eliots position as the leader not only of new American poetry, but o