Timeline T.S. Eliot

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• 1888 T.S. Eliot born in St Louis Thomas Stearns Eliot is born in St Louis, Missouri, into a family of New England origin.
• 1906 Eliot enters Harvard T.S. Eliot studies philosophy at Harvard, then at the Sorbonne and Oxford.
• 1914 Eliot moves to England and meets Pound T.S. Eliot arrives in England on the eve of the First World War and meets Ezra Pound, who champions his poems.
• 1915 Eliot publishes The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock T.S. Eliot's first major poem appears in Poetry magazine. That month he marries Vivienne Haigh-Wood.
• 1917 Eliot joins Lloyds Bank T.S. Eliot begins eight years as a clerk at Lloyds Bank in London and publishes Prufrock and Other Observations.
• 1922 Eliot publishes The Waste Land T.S. Eliot's long poem appears in the first issue of his magazine The Criterion and becomes the landmark of modernist poetry.
• 1925 Eliot joins Faber and Gwyer T.S. Eliot becomes a director at the publisher later known as Faber and Faber.
• 1927 Eliot converts and becomes British T.S. Eliot is baptised into the Church of England in June and becomes a British subject in November.
• 1935 Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral T.S. Eliot's verse drama about the death of Thomas Becket premieres in Canterbury Cathedral.
• 1939 Eliot publishes Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats T.S. Eliot publishes his light verse about cats, written for his godchildren.
• 1943 Eliot publishes Four Quartets T.S. Eliot's four meditative poems, written from 1935 to 1942, appear together in New York.
• 1948 T. S. Eliot wins the Nobel Prize in Literature T.S. Eliot receives the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Order of Merit.
• 1957 Eliot marries Valerie Fletcher T.S. Eliot, 68, marries his 30-year-old secretary Valerie Fletcher.
• 1965 T.S. Eliot dies in London T.S. Eliot dies at his home in Kensington. His ashes are placed in East Coker, his ancestral village.
• 1981 Eliot's cats on stage in Cats Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical based on T.S. Eliot's Old Possum poems opens in London.