[el-ee-uh
t, el-yuht] 
| 1. | Charles William, 1834–1926, U.S. educator: president of Harvard University 1869–1909. |
| 2. | George (Mary Ann Evans), 1819–80, English novelist. |
| 3. | John (“the Apostle of the Indians”), 1604–90, American colonial missionary. |
| 4. | Sir John, 1592–1632, English statesman. |
| 5. | T(homas) S(tearns) [sturnz] , 1888–1965, British poet and critic, born in the U.S.: Nobel prize 1948. |
| 6. | a male given name, form of Elias. |
| Eliot, T (homas) American-born British critic and writer whose poems "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (1915) and The Waste Land (1922) established him as a major literary figure. He also wrote dramas, such as Murder in the Cathedral (1935), and works of criticism. He won the 1948 Nobel Prize for literature. |
An American-born twentieth-century English author. Eliot wrote poems, plays, and essays, and urged the use of ordinary language in poetry. He was much concerned with the general emptiness of modern life and with the revitalization of religion. Among Eliot's best-known works are the poems “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” and “The Waste Land,” and the play Murder in the Cathedral.