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T.S.Eliot 龙娅 谢婷 Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which from the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves. ——T. S. Eliot Content Life story Works poems prose drama Life story ?T.?S.?Eliot?was?a?playwright,?literary?critic,?and?arguably（可论证地)the?most?important?English-language?poet?of?the?20th?century. Life story Thomas Stearns Eliot was born on September 26, 1888, in St. Louis, Missouri. In 1965, he died in London at the age of seventy-seven. 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. Eliot was the youngest of seven children; his parents were both 44 years old when he was born. Life story Education 1898 A student at Smith Academy in St. Louis 1905 To Milton Academy in Massachusetts 1906-10 Under graduate years at Harvard University. Reads Symons’s The Symbolist Movement in Literature and the poetry of Laforgue. Studies with George Santayana and Irving Babbitt. 1910-11 Having finished BA and MA degrees at Harvard, spends a year at the Sorbonne in Paris. In the summer of 1911, finishes a version of The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock 1911-14 Returns to Harvard to study philosophy as a graduate student. Begins doctoral thesis on F.H. Bradley. 1916 His Ph.D. thesis on F. H. Bradley was approved in 1916 after some years of study abroad -- at the Sorbonne in Paris, in Munich, and at Merton College, Oxford——but Eliot never presented himself to accept the degree. Life story He married Vivienne Haigh-Wood in June, 1915. He separated from her in 1932, and she died in 1947, in an mental institution. He married Valerie Fletcher in January, 1956. Life story After setting in England, he first worked as a school teacher, then as a bank clerk. Meanwhile,