T.S. Eliot - Significant Events

By Carmente
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    Studying philosophy in Paris at the Sorbonne

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    Studying Indian philosophy and Sanskrit back at Harvard

  • Eliot meets Emily Hale, whom he falls in love with him

  • Eliot is awarded a scholarship to Merton College in Oxford

    He went to Marburg, Germany, first, where he had intended to do a summer programme, but moved to Oxford after World War I broke out.

  • Eliot opposed a motion by the Junior Commons Room "that this society abhors the Americanization of Oxford".

    It was defeated by two votes after Eliot reminded the students what they owed to American culture.

  • Eliot confesses his love to Hale before leaving the US.

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    Studying on a scholarship at Oxford

  • Conrad Aiken introduces Eliot to Ezra Pound

    Pound deemed Eliot a worthy author and is credited for promoting much of his work in London.

  • Eliot leaves Oxford to teach English at the University of London

  • Scofield Thayer introduces Eliot to Vivienne Haigh-Wood

  • Eliot and Haigh-Wood are married