Thomas Stearns Eliot: A Literary and Critical Pioneer, Schemi e mappe concettuali di Inglese

Scarica Thomas Stearns Eliot: A Literary and Critical Pioneer e più Schemi e mappe concettuali in PDF di Inglese solo su Docsity! Thomas Stearns Eliot American poet and critic (Saint Louis, Missouri, 1888 - London 1965), naturalized British citizen in 1927. He was born into a family of Unitarian tradition. 1888: he was born in St. Louis, Missouri. 1910: he studied in Paris at the Sorbonne. 1915: he married the British ballet dancer Vivienne Haigh-Wood. 1917: he established himself as an important avant-garde poet. 1922: he edited The Criterion, an intellectual magazine. His professions included being a poet, a critic and an editor. 1925: he became director for the publishers Faber & Faber. 1927: he acquired British citizenship and converted to Anglicanism. 1930: for the next thirty years he was considered as “the most dominant figure in poetry and literary criticism in the English- speaking world”. 1948: he received the Nobel Prize for literature. 1965: he died in London. Before the conversion 1917: Prufrock and other Observations. 1922: The Waste Land. It is said to be “the single most influential poetic work of the twentieth century”. 1925: The Hollow Men. After the conversion 1927: Ariel Poems. 1930: Ash-Wednesday. 1935-1942: Four Quartets. 1935: Murder in the Cathedral. 1939: Family Reunion. The Hollow Men Linked to The Waste Land. Main themes: despair and desolation. No redemption is possible because of the lack of faith. Parallel between past and present.