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Eliot famously stated: "Conservatism is too often the conservation of the wrong things, Liberalism a relaxation of discipline; revolution a denial of the permanent things."
[[Image:T S Eliot.jpg|right|thumb|250px]]
[[Image:T S Eliot.jpg|right|thumb|250px]]
'''Thomas Stearns Eliot''' (1888-1965) was an [[United States of America|American]]-born British poet, playwright, and literary critic. He was a dominant force in the English and American literary scene during the middle third of the twentieth century, and presented a powerful conservative voice. His poems include "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (1915), "The Waste Land" (1922), and "The Journey of the Magi" (1927); his plays include "Murder in the Cathedral" (1935). His light verse book "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats" (1939), was later made into [[Cats (musical)|the hit musical "Cats"]] (1981). He studied at [[Oxford University|Oxford]], [[Paris]], and [[Harvard]]. He won the [[Nobel Prize]] for literature in 1948, for his contributions to modern-day poetry.<ref>https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1948/summary/</ref>
'''Thomas Stearns Eliot''' (1888-1965) was an [[United States of America|American]]-born British poet, playwright, and literary critic. He was a dominant force in the English and American literary scene during the middle third of the twentieth century, and presented a powerful somewhat-[[conservative]] voice. His poems include "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (1915), "The Waste Land" (1922), and "The Journey of the Magi" (1927); his plays include "Murder in the Cathedral" (1935). His light verse book "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats" (1939), was later made into [[Cats (musical)|the hit musical "Cats"]] (1981). He studied at [[Oxford University|Oxford]], [[Paris]], and [[Harvard]]. He won the [[Nobel Prize]] for literature in 1948, for his contributions to modern-day poetry.<ref>https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1948/summary/</ref>
Eliot famously stated: "[[Conservatism]] is too often the conservation of the wrong things, [[Liberalism]] a relaxation of discipline; revolution a denial of the permanent things."<ref>https://www.bu.edu/bostonia/fall13/conservative/</ref>
==Early life==
==Early life==
T. S. Eliot was born and grew up in St. Louis, [[Missouri]], and came from a prominent intellectual family of Yankee origins. In 1914 he moved to England.
T. S. Eliot was born and grew up in St. Louis, [[Missouri]], and came from a prominent intellectual family of Yankee origins. In 1914 he moved to England.