An influential poet in modern British and American poetry. Born in St. Louis, USA. He/Kloc-entered Harvard University at the age of 0/8 and immediately began to write poems. After graduation, I majored in philosophy at Harvard University. The school passed his dissertation, but Eliot didn't want to accept it because he thought it was "really unreadable". Eliot 19 14 visited Germany, which coincided with the outbreak of World War I, so he moved to England in the second half of the year, continued to study philosophy at Oxford University, and settled in England from then on. 19 17, Pruefer Locke's Impression was published. After that, he continued to explore the road of creation and was supported by Pound. 1922, his "The Waste Land" came out and gained great fame. 1927 renounced American citizenship and became a British citizen. 1923 ——1939 Editor of Benchmark Magazine. Eliot wrote many things in his life. Besides The Waste Land, the main poetry collections are Gray Wednesday (1930) and Quartet (1943). 1948 was awarded the King's Medal and Nobel Prize in Literature. Eliot is a fanatical religious believer; He is a literary classicist; Politically, he is a royalist. Therefore, his main work is to persuade people to convert to God and obey his will. Eliot is one of the main representatives of symbolism in the late West after the 1920s. He uses symbolism in his creation and likes to use allusions. In addition to poetry, his works include the drama Murder in the Cathedral (1935), Family Reunion (1939), Cocktail Party (1950), and the literary criticism Shenmu Collection (1933).