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T.S Eliot wasn’t just an average poet, he was a literary icon. His poetry changed the world and minds of many people. Eliot’s great mind put him on a pedestal that no one could knock him off. He could be one of the greatest poets to ever walk this earth. There is no other poet that could compare to this man. His journey through early life, adulthood, and his poetry career wasn’t easy; but he made it to the top. Thomas Stearns Eliot was born September 26, 1888 in St. Louis, Missouri. He was the youngest son of Henry Eliot and Charlotte Stearns. At an early age, Eliot was stricken with a congenital double hernia. He began his education at Smith Academy, where he learned numerous languages until 1905. In 1909, Eliot received his bachelor’s degree from Harvard University and received his master’s degree the next year. He finished the doctoral program but never received his degree. (http://www.english.illnois.edu/maps/poets/a_f/eliot/life.htm) Adulthood began for T.S Eliot when he married Vivienne Haigh-Wood in June 1915; also in 1915, his first major poem, “The Love Song of J.Alfred P...

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