艾略特 作品及个人简介.ppt

T.S.Eliot Early Life Eliot was born into the Eliot family, a middle class family originally from New England, who had moved to St. Louis, Missouri. His father, Henry Ware Eliot , was a successful businessman, president and treasurer of the Hydraulic-Press Brick Company in St. Louis. His mother, Charlotte Champe Stearns , wrote poetry and was a social worker. Eliot was the last of six surviving children; his parents were both 44 years old when he was born. Known to family and friends as Tom, he was the namesake of his maternal grandfather Thomas Stearns. Education From 1898 to 1905, Eliot attended Smith Academy, where his studies included Latin, Ancient Greek, French, and German After graduation, Eliot attended Milton Academy in Massachusetts for a preparatory year, where he met Scofield Thayer, who would later publish The Waste Land. He studied philosophy at Harvard from 1906 to 1909, earning his bachelors degree after three years, instead of the usual four. Education After working as a philosophy assistant at Harvard from 1909 to 1910, Eliot moved to Paris, where from 1910 to 1911, he studied philosophy at the Sorbonne. From 1911 to 1914, he was back at Harvard studying Indian philosophy and Sanskrit. By 1916, he had completed a doctoral dissertation for Harvard on Knowledge and Experience in the Philosophy of F. H. Bradley, but he failed to return for the viva voce exam Death and Honors Eliot died of emphysema in London on January 4, 1965. For many years he had had health problems caused by his heavy smoking, and had often been laid low with bronchitis or tachycardia. He was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium. In accordance with Eliots wishes, his ashes were taken to St. Michaels Church in East Coker, the village from which his ancestors had emigrated to America. A wall plaque commemorates him with a quotation from his poem East Coker, In my beginning is my end. In my end is my beginning. In 1967, on the second anniversary of his death, Eliot was commemo