TS elliot

  • TS Eliot is born

    in Saint Louis, Missouri.
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    Womens Suffrage Begins

    National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) is founded,
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    McKinley becomes president

    William McKinley is inaugurated as the 25th president.
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    Modernism

    Variegated movement of the early 20th century, encompassing primitivism, formal innovation, or reaction to science and technology
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    Stream of consciousness writing

    Early-20th-century fiction consisting of literary representations of quotidian thought, without authorial presence
  • Early writing

    Graduate student at Harvard. Early poems, including "Portrait of a Lady" and beginnings of "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", or, "Prufrock".
  • Preludes is composed

  • Prufrock completed

    Poem finalised while studying in France and Germany.
  • Rhapsody on a Windy Night is written

  • Further Education

    Graduate student at Harvard. Commenced work on the philosophy of Francis Herbert Bradley.
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    WWl

    World War I: U.S. enters World War I, declaring war on Germany (April 6, 1917) and Austria-Hungary (Dec. 7, 1917) three years after conflict began in 1914.
  • Publishing Prufock

    Study in Germany cut off by war. Creates short satiric poems. "Prufrock" published in Chicago, June Marriage to Vivien Haigh-Wood, July.
  • Rhapsody on a Windy Night is published

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    First World War Poets

    British poets who documented both the idealism and the horrors of the war and the period in which it took place
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    The Lost Generation

    It refers to a group of American literary notables who lived in Paris and other parts of Europe from the time period which saw the end of World War I to the beginning of the Great Depression
  • Preludes is published

  • Careers

    Eliot holds several jobs, including being a teacher, bank clerk and assistant editor of the literary magazine Egoist.
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    Dadaism

    Touted by its proponents as anti-art, dada focused on going against artistic norms and conventions
  • The Waste Land is published

    "The Waste Land"
    Eliot wins Dial Award for The Waste Land.
  • The Hollow Men

    Written and published.
  • Journey of the Magi

    Written and published
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    Hitler gains power

    1933-Hitler Becomes Chancellor of Germany- His Rise to Power
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    WWll

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    UN is established

  • Wife Death and Nobel Prize

    Death of T.S. Eliot's first wife, after long illness. King George VI bestowed the Order of Merit on T.S. Eliot. Eliot is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
  • TS Eliot dies