| − | '''Thomas Stearns Eliot''' (b. St. Louis 1888 - d. London 1965<ref>He was cremated and his ashes interred beneath a memorial plaque at St. Michael Parish Church, East Coker, Somerset, England.</ref> was an [[United States of America|American]]-born British poet, playwright, and literary critic. He was a major [[modernist]] poet in the first-half 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''' (b. St. Louis 1888 - d. London 1965<ref>He was cremated and his ashes interred beneath a memorial plaque at St. Michael Parish Church, East Coker, Somerset, England.</ref>) was an [[United States of America|American]]-born British poet, playwright, and literary critic. He was a major [[modernist]] poet in the first-half 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> |
| | 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> | | 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> |