Thomas Stearns Eliot [1888-1965] USA/ENG         
Ranked #4 in the top 380 poets
Votes 96%: 1248 up, 48 down
Challenging poems seem disconnected at first glance. Assured, sharp, complete. Poetic cunning, fine craftsmanship, original accent, historical and representative importance as the poet of the modern symbolist-Metaphysical tradition.
Objective correlative.
Influenced by Indic traditions notable the Upanishads.
Criticism of obscurantism. Bipolar disorder, Children, Christian, Existentialism, Expressionism, Humanism, Jazz, Metaphysical poets, Modernism, Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Symbolism |  |
