T. S. Eliot

T. S. Eliot (1888–1965) was born in St. Louis, Missouri, but became the most English of poets, settling in London, converting to Anglicanism, and eventually taking British citizenship. He worked as a bank clerk while writing the poetry that would remake the literary landscape. His critical essays were nearly as influential as his verse, establishing new canons of taste and coining phrases—'objective correlative,' 'dissociation of sensibility'—that generations of students would learn to wield. This author hub collects 2 works in the Canon Compass ranking, led by The Waste Land.