Question

T.S Eliot was born in

• A. 1898
• B. 1878
• C. 1888
• D. 1908

Answer 1

Answer:

C. 1888

T.S. Eliot

• was born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1888.

• After a Harvard degree, he came to Europe to complete his studies and because of the war, stayed in England. where he did low-paid work as a teacher and bank-clerk, writing reviews with startling originality.

• Like many other young artists, he was helped and influenced at this time by Ezra Pound, on whose advice he is said to have cut his most famous poem, THE WASTE LAND' (1922) by about half.