English Literature / Unit 16 ENL 1527 short lesson, about 20 seconds
T. S. Eliot
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The idea
T. S. Eliot, born in St Louis and educated at Harvard, settled in England, worked at Lloyd's Bank and Faber and Faber, became Anglican and British in nineteen twenty-seven, and won the Nobel Prize. The anchor notes his fragmentation, many voices and the mythic method.
In practice
American-born, English poet.
Where people slip
Eliot became British in nineteen twenty-seven.
Your place on the trail
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