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T.S. Eliota chronology
Undergraduate at Harvard. Discovery of LaForgue and the French symbolists. Graduate student at Harvard. Writes his early poems, including "Portrait of a Lady" and the beginnings of "Prufrock". Studies in France and Germany. "Prufrock" completed. Graduate student at Harvard, studying under Bertrand Russell. Commenced work on the philosophy of Francis Herbert Bradley. Study in Germany cut off by war. Residence at Oxford. Short satiric poems. "Prufrock" published in Chicago, June 1915. Marriage to Vivien Haigh-Wood, July 1915. 1915-1919. Eliot holds several jobs, including being a teacher, bank clerk and assistant editor of the literary magazine Egoist. 1915-1916. Teaching and book reviewing in London. Bradley thesis completed. 1915. Eliot becomes a resident of London. "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock". A member of the Bloomsbury Group. 1917-1920. Employee of Lloyd's Bank. Numerous editorial and reviewing assignments. Writing of French poems, quatrain poems, "Gerontion." 1917. Prufrock and Other Observations 1921-1922. London correspondent for The Dial. 1922-1939. Founder and editor of The Criterion. 1922. Eliot wins Dial Award for The Waste Land. London correspondent for Revue Française. 1926-1927. "Fragment of a Prologue," "Fragment of an Agon," essays on Seneca. 1927-1930. Ariel Poems. 1927. Eliot is confirmed in the Church of England and becomes a naturalized British citizen. "Ash Wednesday" 1932. Selected Essays, including most of The Sacred Wood. 1935. Poems, 1909-1935; including "Burnt Norton." 1940-1942. Appearance of "East Coker," "The Dry Salvages," and "Little Gidding." 1943. "The Four Quartets" 1947. Death of T.S. Eliot's first wife, after long illness. 1948. King George VI bestowed the Order of Merit on Eliot. Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. 1957. Marriage to Valerie Fletcher. 1958. The Elder Statesman 1965. T.S. Eliot dies.
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1888. Thomas Stearns Eliot is born in Saint Louis, Missouri.
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