ABSTRACT
Born: September 26, 1888; St. Louis, Missouri Died: January 4, 1965; London, England Area of Achievement: Literature Contribution: Eliot, perhaps the most significant of
the new wave of Symbolists of the 1920's, startled the world of poetry and spoke for a lost generation in The Waste Land, engaged literary critics with his landmark book of criticism, The Sacred Wood, and wrote the most successful verse play of the twentieth century, The Cocktail Party.
