Briti kirjanduse portfoolio
The Celestial Omnibus (and other stories) (1911)
The Eternal Moment and other stories (1928)
Collected Short Stories (1947) (a combination of the above two titles, containing:
· "The Story of A Panic"
· "The Other Side Of The Hedge"
Thomas Stearns Eliot
Thomas Stearns Eliot, (26 September 18884 January1965), was a poet, dramatist, and
literary critic. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. He wrote the poems The
Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrok, The Waste Land, The Hollow Men, Ash Wednesday, and Four
Quartes; the plays Murder in the Cathedral and The Cocktail Party; and the essay "Tradition
and the Individual Talent." Eliot was born in the United States, moved to the United Kingdom
in 1914 (at age 25), and became a British subject in 1927 at the age of 39.
Eliot was born into the prominent Eliot family of St. Louis, Missouri. From 1898 to 1905,
Eliot was a day student at Smith Academy, a preparatory school for Washington University.