T. S. Eliot

Known for

The Waste Land, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, literary modernism

Biography

American-born poet and critic who became a British citizen, and whose fragmented, allusive style redefined modern poetry after the First World War.

A well-known line

"This is the way the world ends / Not with a bang but a whimper." (The Hollow Men)

Major works

• The Waste Land
• The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
• Four Quartets