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Eliot (1888-1965) Thomas? 6? Eliot, a famous English modernist poet and literary critic. Born in Missouri, USA. In 196, he entered Harvard University to study philosophy, then went to Oxford University in England, and then stayed in England to teach and be a staff member. Started writing in 198. There are poems such as Pruefer Locke and Other Observed Things, Selected Poems and Four Quartet. As a representative poem, The Waste Land expresses the spiritual disillusionment of the western generation and is regarded as an epoch-making work in modern western literature. In 1948, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature for "innovating modern poetry and being a pioneer with outstanding achievements".

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Thomas stearns Eliot (1888-1965) was the most influential poet in Britain in the 2th century. He was born in St Louis, Missouri, USA. Grandfather is a priest and a former president of the university. My father is in business, my mother is a poet and has written religious poems. Eliot studied philosophy and comparative literature at Harvard University, was exposed to Sanskrit and oriental culture, was interested in Hegelian philosophers, and was also influenced by French symbolism literature. In 1914, Eliot met the American poet Pound. After the outbreak of World War I, he came to England and settled in London, where he worked as a teacher and a bank clerk. In 1922, he founded the quarterly literary criticism standard, and served as editor-in-chief until 1939. Joined British citizenship in 1927. Eliot thinks he is a royalist in politics, a British Catholic in religion and a classicist in literature. These can be found in his creation. In 1948, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature for "Four Quartet".

Eliot's poetic career can be divided into three stages. Early works have a low mood and often use associations, metaphors and hints to express the distress of modern people. Pruefer Locke's Love Song (1915), a famous work, expresses the protagonist's contradictory mentality of longing for and fearing love with his inner monologue, and shows the emptiness and cowardice of modern people. This poem was later included in his first collection of poems, Pruefer Locke and Others (1917). His other work, Poems (192), published during this period also reflected the pessimism and disappointment of western intellectuals after the First World War, which was well received by British and American literary circles. The Little Old Man was regarded as the prelude to The Waste Land.

1922-1929 is an important period for Eliot's creation, and the techniques and contents of his poems tend to be complicated. The representative works The Wasteland (1922) and The Hollow Man (1925) concentrated on the plight of westerners facing the collapse of modern civilization, with little hope, and their extremely empty living conditions. The despair in The Hollow Man is very obvious: man is hollow, his mind is full of straw, his voice is "completely meaningless, like the wind blowing on the hay", and the whole world will end with a hiss. The hollow man is a symbol of modern people who have lost their souls.

After p>1929, Eliot continued to explore the art of poetry, and at the same time his thoughts began to change. His long poem "Grey Wednesday" (193) has a strong religious color, and the author tries to seek relief from religion. Four Quartet (1943) is an important work in his later period. This is a group of philosophical and religious meditation poems with four titles. Burned Norton refers to an English rural residential site, East Kirk is the village where Eliot's ancestors lived in England, Gansalvicks is a reef on the coast of Massachusetts, and Little Chalcophora is a small church for Chinese Christians during the English Civil War in the 17th century. These places are places that the poet thinks are memorable. Each poem imitates Beethoven's quartet and has five movements. Poetry expresses the disillusionment of life and preaches Christian humility and self-help. Some critics believe that this is Eliot's masterpiece.

Eliot has also made great achievements in the field of poetic drama, trying to create a modern poetic drama model. The protagonist of the play Murder in the Cathedral (1935) is the archbishop Beckett in the 12th century, and the script affirms the religious dedication. His other plays include Family Reunion and Cocktail Party. Eliot is also an important literary critic. He has written many famous literary papers, such as Tradition and Personal Talent and Three Voices of Poetry. He put forward a series of important opinions, such as a writer should have a sense of history, a writer can't be divorced from the literary tradition but can enrich and change the tradition with his own creation, and a poet should look for an "objective counterpart". He also put forward the principles of poetry creation and evaluation in his articles such as "Holy Forest" and "On Poetry and Poets". These views have a great influence on new criticism.