Plagiarism

Presented by: Ghouma Salem

 Biography
Born Thomas Stearns Eliot
Born on September 26,1888 in St. Louis, Missouri
Died January 4,1965 (age 76) in London, England
Eliot was born in the US, moved to the UK in 1914 (at age 25), and
became a British subject in 1927 at the age of 39.
The cause of his death was emphysema
His emphysema was caused by the London air and heavy smoking
 Early life

Eliot was born into the prominent Eliot family of St. Louis,
Missouri

His father was a successful businessman, president and treasurer of

the Hydraulic-Press Brick Company in St. Louis; his mother wrote
poems and was also a social worker.

the last of six surviving children, his four sisters were between
eleven and nineteen years older than him, his brother was eight
years older.

Known to family and friends as Tom, he was the namesake of his

maternal grandfather, Thomas Stearns.
 Education

From 1898 to 1905, he went to Smith Academy, a

preparatory school for Washington University there he
studied Latin, Greek, French, and German.

From 1906-1909 he studied at Harvard, where he earned a

B.A.

The next year, he earned a master's degree

Returning to Harvard in 1911 as a doctoral student in

philosophy.
 Eliot's Works

He wrote poems such as Prufrock and Other

Observations(1917), The Waste Land(1922), The Hollow
Men(1925), and The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (before
WWI)
One thought he had in mind was writing a play in verse with
a jazz tempo with a character that appeared in a number of
his poems, Sweeney. (was never finished)
He did publish two pieces of what he had separately,
"Fragment of a Prologue"(1926) and "Fragment of an
Agon"(1927) were published in 1932 as Sweeney Agonistes it
was noted that this was not to be a one-act play, it is
sometimes performed as one.
 Awards and Honors

In 1948 T.S. Eliot was awarded The Nobel Prize for

Literature
 The poem I liked

A cold coming we had of it,Just the worst time of the

yearFor a journey, and such a long journey:The ways deep
and the weather sharp,The very dead of winter. Journey of
the Magi

In that poem he was very descriptive and used a lot of detail.

It comes from the view of one of the wisemen and talks

about many difficulties they faced.

I like it because it tells the story of them going to visit the

new baby Jesus in a different light than most are used to
hearing it.
 Side jobs

After leaving Merton, he worked as a schoolteacher, most notably

at Highgate School where he taught the young John Betjeman, and
later at the Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe.

To earn extra money, he wrote book reviews and lectured at

evening extension courses

In 1917, he took a position at Lloyds Bank in London, where he

worked on foreign accounts.

In 1925, Eliot left Lloyds to join the publishing firm Faber and
Gwyer (later Faber and Faber), where he remained for the rest of
his career, becoming a director of the firm.
 After Death

Since Eliot's death Esm has dedicated her time to preserving his
legacy

she has edited and annotated The Letters of T. S. Eliot and a

facsimile of the draft of The Waste Land.

His body was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium and,

according to Eliot's wishes, the ashes taken to St Michael's Church
in East Coker, the village from which Eliot's ancestors emigrated to
America

There, a simple wall plaque commemorates him with a quote from

his poem, "East Coker": "In my beginning is my end. In my end is
my beginning."