T S Eliot
Timeline...
| September 26, 1888 | Thomas Stearns Eliot is born in Saint Louis, Missouri. |
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| 1906-1909 | Undergraduate at Harvard. Discovery of the symbolists and Laforgue. |
| 1909-1910 | Graduate student at Harvard. Early poems, including "Portrait of a Lady" and beginnings of "Prufrock". |
| 1910-1911 | Studies in France and Germany. "Prufrock" completed. |
| 1911-1914 | Graduate student at Harvard. Commenced work on the philosophy of Francis Herbert Bradley. |
| 1914-1915 | Study in Germany cut off by war. Residence at Oxford. Short satiric poems. "Prufrock" published in Chicago, June 1915. Marriage to Vivien Haigh-Wood, July 1915. |
| 1915-1919 | Eliot holds several jobs, including being a teacher, bank clerk and assistant editor of the literary magazine Egoist. |
| 1915-1916 | Teaching and book reviewing in London. Bradley thesis completed. |
| 1915 | Eliot becomes a resident of London. "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" |
| 1917-1920 | Employee of Lloyd's Bank. Numerous editorial and reviewing assignments. Writing of French poems, quatrain poems, "Gerontion." |
| 1917 | Prufrock and Other Observations, June 1917 |
| 1921-1922 | London correspondent for The Dial. |
| 1922-1939 | Founder and editor of The Criterion. |
| 1922 | "The Waste Land" Eliot wins Dial Award for The Waste Land. London correspondent for Revue Française. |
| 1926-1927 | "Fragment of a Prologue," "Fragment of an Agon," essays on Seneca. |
| 1927-1930 | Ariel Poems |
| 1927 | Eliot is confirmed in the Church of England and becomes a naturalized British citizen. |
| 1930 | "Ash Wednesday" |
| 1932 | Selected Essays, including most of The Sacred Wood. |
| 1935 | Poems, 1909-1935; including "Burnt Nortan." |
| 1940-1942 | Appearance of "East Coker," "The Dry Salvages," and "Little Gidding." |
| 1943 | "The Four Quartets" |
| 1947 | Death of T.S. Eliot's first wife, after long illness. |
| 1948 | King George VI bestowed the Order of Merit on T.S. Eliot. Eliot is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. |
| 1957 | Marriage to Valerie Fletcher. |
| 1958 | The Elder Statesman |
| January 4, 1965 | T.S. Eliot died. |
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