In 1897, Frost began attending Harvard University but unfortunately had to drop out due to concerns to his health. He then return to Lawrence, where his wife, Elinor, was having her second child. The first child's name was Elliot and the second child was named Lesley. 

 

T.S Eliot was born on September 26, 1888 in St. Louis, Missouri, United States.  Henry Ware Eliot, his father, was a successful businessman and his mother, Charlotte Champe Stearns, wrote poetry and was a social worker. Eliot, had four sisters and one brother.  He had physical limitations as a child because of a congenital double inguinal hernia. Because of what happened to him, his childhood was slow and he started liking literature because he had nothing else to do. From 1898 to 1905, he attended Smith Academy, where he studied Latin, ancient Greek, French, and German. Since he was fourteen, he began to write poetry.   

 

He studied philosophy at Harvard College from 1906 to 1909.  He earned his bachelor’s degree after three years. After one year of being philosophy-assistant at Harvard, Eliot moved to Paris and studied philosophy at the Sorbonne.  In 1911, he went back to Harvard and studied Indian philosophy and Sanskrit.  Eliot married Vivienne Haigh-Wood, a Cambridge governess on June 26, 1915.  Their marriage was unhappy, in part because of his wife’s health issues. They end up divorcing in 1933 and she died in a asylum in 1947.  He later remarried. Eliot died in January 4, 1965 because of emphysema. He was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium and his ashes were taken to San Michael and All Angels church.

Some of T.S Eliot’s work:

·         Prose

·         "The Birds of Prey" (a short story; 1905) 

·         Poems

·         "A Fable for Feasters" (1905)

·         "[A Lyric:]'If Time and Space as Sages say'" (1905)

·        Poems:

·         Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar

·         Christianity & Culture (1939, 1948)

·         The Second-Order Mind (1920)

·         Posthumous publications

·         To Criticize the Critic (1965)

·         The Waste Land: Facsimile Edition (1974)

·         Inventions of the March Hare: Poems 1909–1917 (1996)