T.S.Eliot艾略特英文介绍.ppt

Thomas Stearns Eliot A poet, dramatist, literary critic, and modernist. (1888-1965) Life Born in Missouri on September 26, 1888. His father, Henry Ware Eliot, was the president of the Hydraulic Brick Company. His mother, Charlotte Champe Stearns, was a volunteer at the Humanity Club of St. Louis. Before becoming a volunteer, she was a teacher. When he was born, his parents were in their mid-forties and his siblings were already grown. Struggling from a congenital double?inguinal hernia, Eliot could not participate in many physical activities and thus was prevented from interacting socially with his peers. Thus, he developed his love for literature. Lived in St. Louis during the first eighteen years of his life. He was educated between 1906 and 1909 at Harvard University (three years), where he studied philosophy, which Eliot adopted and reflected in his poetry. He was influenced by anti-Romanticism and the Italian Renaissance, particularly in Dante’s poetry. After working as a philosophy assistant at Harvard from 1909 to 1910, Eliot moved to Paris, where from 1910 to 1911, he studied philosophy at the?Sorbonne, having earned both undergraduate and masters degrees and having contributed several poems to the Harvard Advocate. After a year in Paris, he returned to Harvard to pursue a doctorate in philosophy, but returned to Europe and settled in England in 1914. The following year, he married Vivienne Haigh-Wood and began working in London, first as a teacher, and later for Lloyd's Bank. It was in London that Eliot came under the influence of his contemporary Ezra Pound, who recognized his poetic genius at once, and assisted in the publication of his work in a number of magazines. From 1917 to 1919 he was assistant editor of The Egoist , a magazine advocating the Imagist Movement. In 1921 his marriage was a failure and then he went to Switzerland to receive medical treatment. Two months later he gave Ezra Pound the manuscript of The Waste Land. I