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Love to sleep Lovely Thinking Cleanliness Eliot was born on September 26，1888 in St. Louis . He was a playwright, literary critic, and an important English-language poet of the 20th century. Eliot’s family was a middle class family originally from New England, who had moved to St. Louis. His family is very superior. His father was a successful businessman, president and treasurer of a company in St. Louis. His mother wrote poetry and was a social worker, a new profession in the early twentieth century. Eliot was the last of six surviving children. His parents were both 44 years old when he was born. About the author From 1898 to 1905, Eliot attended Smith Academy, where his studies included Latin, Ancient Greek, French, and German. He began to write poetry when he was fourteen .His first poem published, “A Fable For Feasters,” was written as a school exercise and was published in the Smith Academy Record in February 1905 .Also published there in April 1905 was his oldest surviving poem in manuscript, an untitled lyric, later revised and reprinted as Song in The Harvard Advocate. He also published three short stories in 1905, Birds of Prey, A Tale of a Whale and The Man Who Was King. After graduation, Eliot attended Milton Academy in Massachusetts for a preparatory year. He studied philosophy at Harvard from 1906 to 1909, earning his bachelors degree after three years, instead of the usual four. 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. From 1911 to 1914, he was back at Harvard studying Indian philosophy and Sanskrit. By 1916, he had completed a doctoral dissertation for Harvard on Knowledge and Experience in the Philosophy of F. H. Bradley, but he failed to return for the viva voce exam. Eliot and Vivienne Haigh-Wood, a Cambridge governess were married on June 26, 1915. The marriage was markedly unhappy, in part because