Eliot

Eliot is a surname and given name, perhaps most associated with the poet T.S.

Eliot and the novelist George Eliot (pen name of Mary Ann Evans).

The spelling Eliot distinguishes certain family lines from the more common Elliott or Elliot.

As a first name, it has gained popularity for boys since the late twentieth century.

novelist

George

Traditional male name

realism · provincial · morality · English countryside · omniscient narrator · social commentary · empathy · Warwickshire · feminism · intellectual

poet

T.S.

First and middle initials

Cats · April · cruellest · Harvard · Anglo-Catholic · Vivienne · Ezra Pound · fragments · shoring · ruins

name

surname

Hereditary family identifier

feminine · Hebrew origin · biblical · prophet · Scottish · Anglo-Saxon · family name · namesake · spelling variant · patronymic

places

Charles River

Massachusetts urban waterway

Massachusetts · neighborhood · street name · Maine · missionary · Roxbury · colonial

Categories
Opposites
modernist vs. traditional/romantic poetics

EliotWhitman

Wordsworth · Shelley · Byron · Keats · Longfellow

literary conservatism vs. radicalism

EliotGinsberg

"Howl" writer, beatnik

Henry Miller · Langston Hughes · James Baldwin · Jack Kerouac · D.H. Lawrence

realist vs. romantic/sensationalist fiction

Eliotpenny dreadfuls

Cheap Victorian horror serials

Phrases
Family

Elijah, Elias, T.S. Eliot

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G