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Podcast: The Daily Poem
Episode: T.S. Eliot's "La Figlia che Piange"
Description: T.S. Eliot, in full Thomas Stearns Eliot, (born September 26, 1888, St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.âdied January 4, 1965, London, England), American-English poet, playwright, literary critic, and editor, a leader of the Modernistmovement in poetry in such works as The Waste Land (1922) and Four Quartets (1943). Eliot exercised a strong influence on Anglo-American culture from the 1920s until late in the century. His experiments in diction, style, and versification revitalized English poetry, and in a series of critical essays he shattered old orthodoxies and erected new ones. The publication of Four Quartets led to his recognition as the greatest living English poet and man of letters, a...