Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in St Louis, Missouri, in 1888. He settled in England in 1915 and published his first book of poems in 1917. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Eliot died in 1965.
A graduate of the Universities of Edinburgh and Oxford, Archie Burnett is best known for his scholarly editions of the poems and letters of A. E. Housman (1997, 2007) and the poems of Phili...