Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965) T.S. Eliot was a poet, critic, and an editor. He was a major figure in English poetry, famous for works such as “The Waste Land,” and “The Sacred Wood.” His critical essays helped to start a movement of literary modernism by stressing tradition, along with objective discipline. Eliot, along with the help of William Butler Yeats, and Ezra Pound set new poetic standards by rejecting the English romantics. Thomas Stearns …showed first 75 words of 1472 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1472 total…th wedding anniversary. It is almost impossible to overstate Eliot’s influence or his importance to 20th Century poetry. Through his essays, and especially through his own poetic practice, he played a major role in establishing the modernist conception of poetry. First and last, it was through the example of his own superb poetry that he carried the day, and the poetry will survive undivided as the details of his career withdraw into literary history.