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T.S. Eliot  （Thomas Stearns Eliot）(1888-1965) T.S. Eliot (1888-1965 ), Born in St. Louis, graduated from Harvard（1910） and studied at the Sorbonne and at Merton College, Oxford. In 1914 he went to Europe, and he did not return to the U.S. until 1932. In the intervening years he did some school teaching in England, became a London bank clerk, wrote reviews and poems, assisted in editing a literary journal, and in 1923 became editor of the quarterly review Criterion. In 1927 he became a British subject because of his interest in the English church and state. Critic Works: His first volume of criticism, The Sacred Wood (1920) Lancelot Andrewes (1928) After Strange Gods (1934) His first volume of verse, Prufrock and Other Observations (1917) A second volume, Poems (1920) The Waste Land (1922) “The Hollow Men” (1925) Ash-Wednesday (1930) The voice in “Prufrock” manages to hold us through its spellbinder’s charm. An auditory tour de force The power of “a piece of rhymical grumbling” Imagery According to C. Day Lewis’ statements, an image “is a picture made out words,” and that “a poem may itself be an image composed from a multiplicity of images”. Three discriminable uses of the term “imagery” (1)“Imagery” (that is, “images ”taken collectively) is used to signify all the objects and qualities of sense perception referred to in a poem or other work of literature, whether by literal description, by allusion, or in the vehicles (the secondary references) of its similes and metaphors. Three discriminable uses of the term “imagery” (2) Imagery is used, more narrowly, to signify only specify descriptions of visible objects and scenes, especially if the description is vivid and particularized. Three discriminable uses of the term “imagery” (3) Commonly in recent usage, imagery signifies figurative language, especially the vehicles of metaphors and similes. Critics after the 1930s, and notably the New Critics, went far beyond earlier commentators in stress