Thomas Stearns Eliot was born September 26th, 1888 during what can be called an age of transition and could quite possibly be named one of the best poets of the 19th century. He wrote many poems of memories of childhood and bitter visions of various times in his life. Later in life, his craving for writing theatrical dramas took over. His most famous and celebrated work is the long and perplexing poem, The Waste Land, which took him nearly a year to finish. T.S. Eliot had a life full of conflict and pain, but this became his fuel for writing some of the greatest literary works of all time.
From the very beginning, he was different from the rest of his family, perhaps because of the considerable age difference between him and his siblings. He was one of the seven children that Charlotte Champe Stearns, a school teacher, and Henry Ware Eliot, a merchant, had brought into the world. The Eliot family was all-around very well respected, and gave the city they lived in its......
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