... Pound encouraged Eliot to expand his writing abilities and publish his work. Eliot became an England citizen in 1925 and received the Nobel Peace Prize for literature in 1948. Eliot connected most of his earlier works to French Symbolists, such as Mallarme, Baudelaire, and Rimbaud and first ... He gained their ability to write poetry filled with wisdom while adding his own passionate language. Eliot's most famous works included The Waste Land (1922), "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (1917), "Cousin Nancy" (1924), The Criterion (1922-1939), "Ash Wednesday" (1930), Four Quartets (193...

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... philosophy, but then left again in 1914 back to Europe where he settled in England. In 1915 he married Vivienne Haigh-Wood. He also met Ezra Pound, one of the few major influences in his life. When Pound saw some of his writings she immediately knew that he had talent. She helped in his ... more and more socially and religiously conservative. His new found faith was to later influence his poem The Hollow Men. Few of his followers were ready for the Baptism of Eliot. With Eliot's "revolutionary" style of writing, anger began to grow. Eliot began to write more and more on religious emphas...

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