The connection between Beethoven's String Quartet No. 15 (Op. 132) and T. S. Eliot's poem cycle ''Four Quartets'' seems undeniable. ''I have the A minor Quartet on the gramophone,'' Eliot wrote in 1931 to his fellow poet Stephen Spender, ''and I find it quite inexhaustible to study.'' He went on in the letter to wonder at the ''heavenly, or at...
THE LETTERS OF T. S. ELIOT Volume 1: 1898-1922, Revised Edition; Volume 2: 1923-1925 Edited by Valerie Eliot and Hugh Haughton Illustrated. 871 pp. and 878 pp. Yale University Press. $45 each. Grover Cleveland was still president when T. S. Eliot was born. His earliest surviving letter was written to his father from the family summer home in...
It's always hard to say what a dead poet would have liked, especially a poet as particular, not to say critically sniffy, in his likes and dislikes as T. S. Eliot. But the guarantee of electronic posterity should be hard for even him to resist. Eliot's own publishing house -- Faber & Faber, where he worked for many years -- has just rereleased what...
Thomas Stearns Eliot (26. september 1888 – 4. januar 1965) var poet og dramatiker.
Han modtog Nobelprisen i litteratur i 1948. Eliot blev født i USA, flyttede til England i 1914 og blev britisk statsborger i 1927.