... in the United States, he moved to the United Kingdom in 1914 (at age 25) and was naturalized as a British subject in 1927 at age 39. Eliot was born into a middle class family originally from New England. T.S. Eliot's grandfather William Greenleaf Eliot had moved to St. Louis, Missouri in ... Land" in The Criterion. It is widely regarded as "one of the most important poems of the 20th century" and a central text in Modernist poetry. Eliot's dedication to "the better craftsman" refers to Ezra Pound's significant hand in editing and reshaping the poem from a longer Eliot manuscript...

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• Approx Pages: 17
• Grade Level: High School

... including Rupert Brooke, D.H. Lawrence, Siegfried Sassoon and Isaac Rosenberg – were published in the series Georgian Poetry (five volumes, between 1912 and 1922), but they cannot be properly classified together. Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot later severely criticised these volumes, but the reputations of many of the individual poets have remained high. Robert Graves was one of the central figures in English poetry ... . More significant than Georgian poetry, although short-lived as a movement, were the Imagist poets, whose first anthology – Des Imagistes (1914) – was edited by the Amer...

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... room the women come and go 36 Talking of Michelangelo. 37 And indeed there will be time 38 To wonder, "Do I dare?" and, "Do I dare?" 39 Time to turn back and descend the stair, 40 With a bald spot in the middle of my hair -- 41 (They will say: 'How his hair is ... We have lingered in the chambers of the sea 130 By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown 131 Till human voices wake us, and we drown. NOTES Other poems by T. S. Eliot ... The poet's life and works ... Composition Date: February 1910 - July/August 1911. Form: irregularly rhyming. 1. The epigraph comes from the ... to be...

• Word Count: 6460
• Approx Pages: 26
• Grade Level: High School