Eliot, Thomas Stearns (T. S. Eliot)

1888 - Eliot was born in Saint Louis, Missouri on the 26th of September.

1898-1905 - He was a student at the St. Louis Smith Academy. He studied Latin, Greek, French and German.

1905-1906 - Attended Militon Academy in Milton, Massachusetts.

1906-1909 - He went to Harvard University where he got his bachelor's degree.

1909-1910 - He was able to get his master's degree and his poems were published by The Harvard Advocate.

1910-1911 - He moved to Paris and studied at the Sorbonne.

1911 - He went back to Harvard and pursued a doctorate degree in philosophy.

1914 - He was awarded a scholarship to attend Merton College, Oxford.

1915 - He married Vivienne Haigh-Wood on the 26th of June. He published his collection of poems entitled The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.

1916 - He worked as a school teacher at Highgate School, where he taught the young poet Sir John Betjeman. He wrote book reviews and lectured at evening extension courses to earn extra money.

1917 - He worked at the Lloyds Bank in London.

1922 - He published the book entitled The Waste Land on the month of October.

1925 - Became the director of the publishing firm of Faber and Gwyer.

1929 - He was converted to Anglicanism on the 29th of June and dropped his American citizenship and became a British subject.

1932-1933 - He worked at the Harvard University after they him the Charles Eliot Norton professorship.

1939 - He published a book of poetry for children, Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats.

1944 - He wrote the poem entitled Four Quartets.

1948 - He received a Nobel Prize in Literature.

1957 - After his failed marriage with Vivienne, he married Esme Valerie Fletcher on th 10th of January.

1965 - He died of emphysema in London on the 4th of January.

• "I will show you fear in a handful of dust."
• "Only those who will risk going too far Can possibly find out how far one can go."
• "Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal."
• "Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?"
• "We do not quite say that the new is more valuable because it fits in; but its fitting in is a test of its value -- a test, it is true, which can only be slowly and cautiously applied, for we are none of us infallible judges of conformity."