T.S. Eliot

Notes Towards the Definition of Culture

Essay exploring the relationship between literature, society, and cultural continuity

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T.S. Eliot

Anglo-American poet and critic who revolutionized both poetry and literary criticism in the 20th century. The Waste Land is the most discussed poem of the century; his essays on the Metaphysical poets and on tradition and the individual talent reshaped the literary canon. He won the Nobel Prize in 1948.

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