Share:
  Guess poet | Poets | Poets timeline | Isles | Contacts
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

YearsCountryPoetInteraction
1265-1321
ITA
Dante Alighieri
→ (poem structure) influenced Thomas Stearns Eliot
1572-1631
ENG
John Donne
→ influenced Thomas Stearns Eliot
1709-1784
ENG
Samuel Johnson
→ influenced Thomas Stearns Eliot
1795-1821
ENG
John Keats
→ influenced Thomas Stearns Eliot
1809-1883
ENG
Edward Fitzgerald
→ influenced Thomas Stearns Eliot
1812-1889
ENG
Robert Browning
→ influenced Thomas Stearns Eliot
1821-1867
FRA
Charles Baudelaire
→ influenced Thomas Stearns Eliot
1854-1891
FRA
Arthur Rimbaud
→ influenced Thomas Stearns Eliot
1865-1945
ENG
Arthur Symons
→ influenced Thomas Stearns Eliot
1883-1963
USA
William Carlos Williams
→ regarded too academic Thomas Stearns Eliot
1885-1972
USA
Ezra Pound
→ influenced Thomas Stearns Eliot
1894-1967
AFR/USA
Jean Toomer
→ praised Thomas Stearns Eliot
1897-1970
USA
Louise Bogan
→ different Thomas Stearns Eliot
1900-1971
GRC
Giorgos Seferis
→ translated Thomas Stearns Eliot
1909-1995
ENG
Stephen Spender
→ friend of Thomas Stearns Eliot
1554-1586
ENG
Philip Sidney
← praised by Thomas Stearns Eliot
1608-1674
ENG
John Milton
← disliked by Thomas Stearns Eliot
1631-1700
ENG
John Dryden
← praised by Thomas Stearns Eliot
1809-1892
ENG
Alfred Lord Tennyson
← liked by Thomas Stearns Eliot
1811-1872
FRA
Theophile Gautier
← praised by Thomas Stearns Eliot
1863-1933
GRC
Constantine P Cavafy
← praised by Thomas Stearns Eliot
1865-1936
ENG
Rudyard Kipling
← praised by Thomas Stearns Eliot
1882-1941
IRL
James Joyce
← influenced by Thomas Stearns Eliot
1885-1972
USA
Ezra Pound
← influenced by Thomas Stearns Eliot
1887-1959
SCO
Edwin Muir
← praised by Thomas Stearns Eliot
1887-1972
USA
Marianne Moore
← praised by Thomas Stearns Eliot
1888-1935
POR
Fernando Pessoa
← influenced by Thomas Stearns Eliot
1889-1973
USA
Conrad Potter Aiken
← friend of Thomas Stearns Eliot
1892-1982
USA
Archibald MacLeish
← influenced by Thomas Stearns Eliot
1899-1932
USA
Harold Hart Crane
← influenced by Thomas Stearns Eliot
1899-1979
USA
Allen Tate
← influenced by Thomas Stearns Eliot
1899-1954
IND
Jibanananda Das
← influenced by Thomas Stearns Eliot
1900-1971
GRC
Giorgos Seferis
← influenced by Thomas Stearns Eliot
1904-1967
IRL
Patrick Kavanagh
← influenced by Thomas Stearns Eliot
1906-1984
ENG
John Betjeman
← influenced by Thomas Stearns Eliot
1907-1973
ENG/USA
W H Auden
← influenced by Thomas Stearns Eliot
1908-1963
USA
Theodore Roethke
← influenced by Thomas Stearns Eliot
1913-1966
USA
Delmore Schwartz
← praised by Thomas Stearns Eliot
1914-1998
MEX
Octavio Paz
← influenced by Thomas Stearns Eliot
1920-1944
ENG
Keith Douglas
← (impressive) praised by Thomas Stearns Eliot
1922-1985
ENG
Philip Larkin
← influenced by Thomas Stearns Eliot
1924-2000
ISR
Yehuda Amichai
← influenced by Thomas Stearns Eliot
1930-1998
ENG
Ted Hughes
← influenced by Thomas Stearns Eliot
1930-
LCA
Derek Walcott
← influenced by Thomas Stearns Eliot


WorkLangRating
The Waste Land
eng
200
The Hollow Men
eng
150
Portrait of a Lady
eng
100
Four Quartets 2: East Coker
eng
60
Gus: The Theatre Cat
eng
50
Whispers of Immortality
eng
40
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
eng
30
Little Gidding
eng
10
Journey of the Magi
eng
9
Preludes
eng
8
The Hippopotamus
eng
7
Morning at the Window
eng
6

The script ran 0.007 seconds.

Enter chat