TS Eliot is remembered as a poetic icon of the twentieth century – Weather

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Eliot was a poet, essayist and playwright Photo: File

London .- The January 4, 1965 died the Anglo-American writer TS Eliot, one of the great poets of the twentieth century choosing land of their ancestors, England, to secure a career that earned him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948.

Thomas Stearns Eliot, known as TS Eliot, emigrated to England in 1914 , at age 25, after giving his first literary steps in Missouri (USA), his birthplace and where his passion for the world of letters began at an early age.

Although there are not any events scheduled for the fiftieth anniversary of his death, is expected to lovers of his poems come close to Westminster Abbey in London, where he has a memorial stone in the “corner poets “.

Established in London

essayist, poet, playwright and literary critic, Eliot wrote some of the most famous poems in English as” The Waste Land “,” The Hollow Men “and” Ash Wednesday “in addition to plays like” Murder in the Cathedral “.

Other works were renamed “The first choir Rock,” “The Book of Practical Cats” or “Four Quartets.”

When you receive the most prestigious award of literature, the Nobel committee noted that TS Eliot was honored for his “outstanding and pioneering contribution to the poetry of today.”

Born into a family of English roots, as his grandfather had emigrated to the USA, writer (1888-1965) was attracted by the literature since influenced boy, according to his biographers, the problems derived from an inguinal hernia that was impossible to do sports with other children. Instead of socializing, spent hours reading, absorbed adventure books such as Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain.

He studied Latin, ancient Greek, French and German in their home country. He studied philosophy at Harvard College from 1906 to 1909 and, a year later went to Paris to study philosophy at the Sorbonne, where he met renowned writers before winning a scholarship to study at Merton College of English University of Oxford in 1914, at a time when the country was plunged into the First World War.

In London, Eliot met the influential poet and essayist Ezra Pound, who helped him to be promoted among the circle of poets, in addition to reviewing his famous poem “The Waste Land.”

It was also in London where he married his first wife, Vivienne Haigh-Wood, although the relationship was plagued by constant ups and downs of her health problems. They separated in 1932 although they never divorced.

This strained marital relationship was brought to the big screen in the movie “Tom and Viv” (1994), directed by Brian Gilbert and starring Willem Dafoe and Miranda Richardson. had a second marriage, but none concebió children. He died at his home in London’s Kensington emphysema and, following his wishes, his ashes were scattered in East Coker, Somerset village.