T.S. Eliot (1888 - 1965) was a poet, dramatist, and literary critic. who may be known to you through his poems "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", "The Waste Land", "The Hollow Men", "Ash Wednesday" and "Four Quartets" and his plays" Murder in the Cathedral" and "The Cocktail Party".
T.S. Eliot was born in the United States, moved to the United Kingdom in 1914 (at age 25), and became a British subject in 1927 at the age of 39.
Of his nationality and its role in his work, T.S. Eliot said: "My poetry wouldn’t be what it is if I’d been born in England, and it wouldn’t be what it is if I’d stayed in America. It’s a combination of things. But in its sources, in its emotional springs, it comes from America."
He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948.
(From Wikipedia)
I rather like Eliot's little word-picture of Edwardian London
MORNING AT THE WINDOW
They are rattling breakfast plates in basement kitchens,
And along the trampled edges of the street
I am aware of the damp souls of housemaids
Sprouting despondently at area gates.
The brown waves of fog toss up to me
Twisted faces from the bottom of the street,
And tear from a passer-by with muddy skirts
An aimless smile that hovers in the air
And vanishes along the level of the roofs.
T. S. Eliot
19/07/08 @ 17:08