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About T.S. Eliot

Thomas Stearns Eliot (26 September 1888 – 4 January 1965) was a poet, essayist and playwright. He was a leading figure of modernist poetry in the English language where he altered the art through his use of pessimistic language, writing style, and verse structure. Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948, he is considered one of the greatest poets of the English language. He is also noted for his critical essays, which often re-evaluated long-held cultural beliefs.

Born in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, to a prominent Boston Brahmin family, he moved to England in 1914 at the age of 25 and went on to settle, work, and marry there. He became a British subject in 1927 at the age of 39 and renounced his American citizenship.

Eliot first attracted widespread attention for "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (1915), which, at the time of its publication, was considered outlandish. It was followed by The Waste Land (1922), "The Hollow Men" (1925), Ash Wednesday (1930), and Four Quartets (1943). He wrote seven plays, including Murder in the Cathedral (1935) and The Cocktail Party (1949). He was awarded the 1948 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry".

T.S. Eliot is best known for The Waste Land and other poems.

On FindMyTBR we track 26 books by T.S. Eliot, 26 of them confirmed as audiobooks on Spotify or Apple Books — including A Rare Recording of TS Eliot Reading His Poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, Ash Wednesday, and Between the Desire and the Dream: Selected Poems by T. S. Eliot (Unabridged). Full availability across Spotify, Apple Books, Audible, and Amazon is below.