T.S. Eliot reads / T.S. Eliot 160 p.

T.S. Eliot, born in St. Louis, lived there for the first 18 years of his life. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948. He lived 1888-1965. His poems reflect his living through two World Wars. He used his extensive vocabulary and his detailed look at life to crafted poems were very descriptive. While he used the common speech, he packed poems with meaning. He wrote about what interested him. The poems could be very heavy and dark, as when he wrote about death. Yet his poems were interested to read, like The Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. He would flip from writing almost commentaries about life to cats, as in Macavity: the Mystery Cat. which contributed too Lloyd-Webber's Cats.