T. S. Eliot Achievements, Author Biography, Trivia, and Movies

Honors and Awards

Year	Award	Work
1983	Tony Award for Best Original Score	Cats
1983	Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical	Cats
1950	Tony Award for Best Play	The Cocktail Party
1983	Nominated - Tony Award for Best Original Score	Cats
1983	Nominated - Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical	Cats
1950	Nominated - Tony Award for Best Play	The Cocktail Party

Written works by T. S. Eliot

Title	Published	Genre
The Waste Land	1922
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats	1939
Murder in the Cathedral
Four Quartets	1945	Poetry
Cats
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock	1915
Gerontion	1920
The Journey of the Magi	1927
The Hollow Men	1925
Ash Wednesday	1930
Sweeney Among the Nightingales
Tradition and the Individual Talent	1919
The Elder Statesman
The Cocktail Party
The Family Reunion
Christianity And Culture
Hamlet and His Problems	1920
Portrait of a Lady
The Frontiers of Criticism
The Rock	1934
Burnt Norton
The Dry Salvages
Little Gidding
Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar
Sweeney Erect
A Cooking Egg
Le Directeur
Mélange adultère de tout
Lune de Miel
The Hippopotamus
Dans le Restaurant
Whispers of Immortality
Mr. Eliot's Sunday Morning Service	1920
Preludes
Rhapsody on a Windy Night
Morning at the Window
The Boston Evening Transcript
Aunt Helen	1917
Cousin Nancy
Mr. Apollinax
Hysteria
Conversation Galante
La Figlia Che Pianga
Collected Poems, 1909-1962		Poetry
Little Gidding
East Coker
Inventions of the March Hare: Poems 1909–1917	1997
Funcion De La Poesia Y Funcion De La Critica
The idea of a literary review
propositi del dramma poetico
Prufrock And Other Observations
Four modern verse plays
After strange gods
Eliot
The varieties of metaphysical poetry
The complete plays
The music of poetry
From Poe to Vale ry
Inventions of the March Hare
Points of view
T. S. Eliot
Eliot papers
Eeldrop and Appleplex
For Lancelot Andrewes
La idea de una sociedad cristiana
Voices and Visions
Poèms, 1910-1930
Andrew Marvell
Reading Poems and Choruses
A note on the verse of John Milton
Poems, 1909-1925
The frontiers of criticism
Marina
Poems written in early youth	1967
Animula
Poemas
A casebook on Gerontion
Poetry by T.S Eliot
The value and use of cathedrals in England to-day
Saggi elisabettiani
On poetry
Poe sie
The Annotated Waste Land with Eliot's Contemporary Prose
Die Dramen
Estilos Griegos I - Kavafis K . P. Eliot
Inventos de la liebre de marzo, poemas 1909-1917
Jarīmat qatl fī al-kātidrāʼīyah
Shakespeare and the stoicism of Seneca
Eliot Euskaraz
Three critical essays on modern English poetry
Essays
Assassinio nella cattedrale
Meurtre dans la cathédrale
The three voices of poetry
Milton
Arḍ al-yabạb
Der familientag
Geoffrey Faber, 1889-1961
Mr. Mistoffelees
Homage to John Dryden

T. S. Eliot Image Gallery

A plaque at SOAS's Faber Building, 24 Russell Square commemorating T S Eliot's years at Faber and Fa...

T. S. Eliot (1938) by Wyndham Lewis

Characters created by T. S. Eliot

Great Rumpuscat

Appears in:Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats

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Thomas Becket

Appears in:Murder in the Cathedral

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Jellylorum

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T. S. Eliot quotes

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to ...
- T. S. Eliot
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
- T. S. Eliot
It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
- T. S. Eliot
For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.
- T. S. Eliot
It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.
- T. S. Eliot

Works by T. S. Eliot adapted to film

The Waste Land

Release date:1995

Directed by:Deborah Warner

Genre:Short Film

Adapted from:The Waste Land

Places T. S. Eliot has lived

Marker	Location	Population
A	Missouri	6,010,688
B	St. Louis	318,069

Personal relationships of T. S. Eliot

Valerie Eliot
Married 7 years
Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot
Married 31 years

Significant Other	Relationship	Date Started	Date Ended	Duration
Valerie Eliot	Marriage	Jan. 10, 1957	Jan. 4, 1965	7 years
Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot	Marriage	June 26, 1915	Jan. 22, 1947	31 years

Frequently Asked Questions

Q:
Who is acknowledged for having an influence on T. S. Eliot?
A:
Paul Valéry, William Butler Yeats, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Charles Baudelaire and John Donne influenced T. S. Eliot.
Q:
What faith did T. S. Eliot subscribe to?
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Anglicanism was T. S. Eliot's chosen denomination.
Q:
Where did T. S. Eliot go to school?
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T. S. Eliot studied at Harvard University.
Q:
What was T. S. Eliot's profession?
A:
T. S. Eliot was an accomplished writer and playwright.
Q:
What is a popular quote by T. S. Eliot?
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One notable quote is, "For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business."
Q:
How did T. S. Eliot die?
A:
His death was caused by emphysema.
Q:
Which popular books have been composed by writer, T. S. Eliot?
A:
Popular books include:
- Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
- Christianity And Culture
- The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
- Ash Wednesday
- The Waste Land
- Four Quartets
- Gerontion
Q:
Where was T. S. Eliot born?
A:
T. S. Eliot was born in St. Louis.

T. S. Eliot

Honors and Awards

Written works by T. S. Eliot

T. S. Eliot Image Gallery

Characters created by T. S. Eliot

T. S. Eliot quotes

Works by T. S. Eliot adapted to film

Places T. S. Eliot has lived

Personal relationships of T. S. Eliot

Frequently Asked Questions

Awards & Accolades

T. S. Eliot