T. S. Eliot

T.S. Eliot was an American-British poet, dramatist, literary critic, and editor who is widely regarded as one of the most important poets of the twentieth century. Born in St Louis, Missouri, in 1888, he moved to England and became a British citizen. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. His works include The Waste Land, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, Four Quartets, and Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (which inspired the musical Cats). Eliot's poetry revolutionised modern literature with its fragmented forms, its erudition, and its unflinching exploration of spiritual desolation and redemption. He was also a hugely influential literary critic and editor at Faber and Faber. Eliot died in 1965. His audiobooks and books offer listeners and readers some of the most important poetry ever written in the English language — work that defined literary modernism and continues to challenge and inspire.