TOP KEY ELEMENTS From ‘Murder In The Cathedral’

Abstract

Thomas Stearns Eliot, also known as T.S. Eliot, was an American-English poet, playwright, literary critic, and editor who was a leader of the Modernist movement in poetry. He was born on September 26, 1888, in St. Louis, Missouri, and died on January 4, 1965, in London, England. Eliot was educated at Harvard and did graduate work in philosophy at the Sorbonne, Harvard, and Merton College, Oxford. He settled in England, where he was for a time a schoolmaster and a bank clerk, and eventually became literary editor for the publishing house Faber & Faber, of which he later became a director. Eliot has been one of the most daring innovators of twentieth-century poetry. His most notable works include "The Waste Land" (1922), "Four Quartets" (1943), and the play "Murder in the Cathedral" (1935). Eliot's poetry from "Prufrock and Other Observations" (1917) to "Four Quartets" (1943) reflects the development of a Christian writer. As a critic, he had an enormous impact on contemporary literary taste, propounding views that, after his conversion to orthodox Christianity in the late 1930s, were increasingly based in social and religious conservatism. Eliot was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948.