With Eliot, biography
Born: September 26 was born in a rich family. His grandfather was a priest who built a church and founded a university college. Father was the president of an industrial company, the mother was fond of literary activity. From an early age he showed outstanding abilities, at the age of 14, under the influence of the poetry of Omar Khayyam, he began to write poetry. After graduating from a private school, he entered Harvard University, which graduated from three years instead of four.
He worked as an assistant at the university for another year. He lived in Paris and listened to lectures on philosophy and languages in the Sorbonne. He returned to the United States and three years in doctoral studies ... Harvard studied Indian philosophy and Sanskrit. Eliot began his literary career with Ezra Pound. There were much in their views in their views, and Eliot willingly printed poetry in the anthologies of imagism.
He moved to Europe, first to German Marburg, with the outbreak of World War I went to England and lived a large part of his life in this country, working as a banking employee, a school teacher, and then a professor of literature. At first, Eliot settled in London, then moved to Oxford. Being a poet of the avant-garde, he belonged to the modern world of Buntar. The central theme of his work was the crisis of the spirit.
The formation of Eliot was a noticeable influence by the ideas of the people given by the God of spiritual values and self -stability, the people given to him by the struggle for survival and pursuit of material values, popular at that time. He married the ballerina Vivien Haywood, but it soon became clear that she was suffering from a mental disorder. The most significant verses of the early years were included in the book “The love song of Alfred Prufrook”, perceived by contemporaries as a manifesto of Anglo-American modernism.
His collection "Poems" came out. In Eliot, he published his most significant work - the poem "Fire Earth", which embodied the post -war sentiments of the "lost generation" and rich in biblical and danthemian allusions. Eliot was also a prominent critic. His articles were published in various periodicals. The collection of his aesthetic works “The Holy Forest” came out.
Eliot reminded his contemporaries of the half -forgotten John Donna and other “metaphysical poets”, among whom he especially appreciated Andrew Marvell and John Webster. Eliot mainly rejected the poetry of classicism and romanticism as the embodiment of “Dissociation of Sensibility”, that is, the discrepancy between reason and feelings. Eliot sharply contrasted the mind and feelings, believing that poetry should not turn directly to them.
Poetry should neither express the emotions of your creator, nor excite them in a listener or reader ... Poetry is a flight from emotions, not an expression of a person, but a flight from a person. He turned to the Aliote to Anglicanism and became a citizen of Great Britain. His thoughts about religion were reflected in the poem "Ash Environment", designed in a more traditional style than its early works.
After a twenty -year break, he visited America. I divorced my wife.
Eliot was an elite poet, his poetry is completely different from the works of contemporary authors. At the same time, the difficulty inherent in his work was not the goal of Eliot, it was rather a consequence of the non -standard and diversity of the poetic problems that he posed and solved. At the age of 68, he married his former secretary Valerie Fletcher. He died in London and was buried in Westminster Abbey.
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