Eliot, T. S.

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 .