The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
Eliot, T(homas) S(tearns)
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1888–1965
American-born British critic and writer whose poems “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (1915) and The Waste Land (1922) established him as a major literary figure. He also wrote dramas, such as Murder in the Cathedral (1935), and works of criticism. He won the 1948 Nobel Prize for literature.
