The book was a 14 poem book.
Eliot was born in 1888 and died in 1965. He ranked as one of the most important poets of the 1900's. In "The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock" Waste land, and other poems, he departed radically from the techniques and subject matter of pre-World War 1 poetry. His poety along with his critical works, helped to reshape modern literature. He received the 1948 Nobel Prize for literature.
HIS LIFE: Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in St. Louis, USA. He studied at Harvard University in the United States, The Sorbonne in Paris and at Oxford University in the UK. He settled in London in 1914. Eliot was working as a blank clerk when his poems came to the attention of the American poet Ezra Pound. Pound encouraged Eliot and helped him with his poetry.
Many of Eliots views on literature appeared in Te Criterion, a littrature mag he edited from 1922 to 1939. He served as a director of a London publishing house from 1925 until his death.
