T. S. Eliot

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Eliot (1888–1965) was an American-born British poet, playwright, and literary critic whose work defined modernist poetry.

His poems "The Waste Land" and "The Love Song of J.

Alfred Prufrock" revolutionized English verse with their fragmented structure, allusive density, and bleak portrayal of modern life.

Eliot won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948.

His later work, including "Four Quartets," explores religious themes following his conversion to Anglicanism.

His whimsical "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats" became the basis for the musical *Cats*.