Ts eliot biography powerpoint

Title: T' S' Eliot


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T. S. Eliot

• Ashley Fleming
• Sam Gilbert

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• This is the way the world ends
• This is the way the world ends
• This is the way the world ends
• Not with a bang but a whimper

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Life of Thomas Stearns Eliot

• Born- 26 Sept.

  1888

• Died- 4 Jan. 1965
• His father was a businessman and his mother a
  poetess. He grew up in Boston and his family had
  roots with the first settlers there as well as in
  Missouri on his paternal side.

• Worked as an air-raid warden during the war, a
  schoolmaster, a bank clerk, a poet, a critic,
  assistant editor for The Egoist, editor of The
  Criterion, publisher with Faber and Faber, and
  professor of poetry at Harvard.

  Ts eliot biography powerpoint presentation

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Life (contd.)

• Moved to Great Britain where he became a British
  subject in 1927.
• While living in Britain he marrried Vivienne
  Haigh-Wood (1915), who died in 1945.
• He later remarried in 1957 to Valerie Fletcher
• He died of emphysema in London on Jan