What influence did T. S. Eliot have on the Modernist movement?

T. S. Eliot is considered one of the most important poets in the modernist movement. Many aspects of his poetry influenced subsequent forms of modernism in literature. His critical essays, especially "Tradition and the Individual Talent" were also influential. read more

T.S. Eliot was influential both as a poet and as a literary critic during the first half of the twentieth-century. Much of his work is a seminal force in the modernist movement, and he was highly respected, even by those who didn't necessarily imbibe his literary technique or philosophy. read more

T.S. Eliot sets up hoops and asks you, the ever-patient reader, to jump through them. Some people are reduced to tears by this game of "spot all the allusions." Some people love it. read more

After Eliot's death, Valerie dedicated her time to preserving his legacy, by editing and annotating The Letters of T. S. Eliot and a facsimile of the draft of The Waste Land. Valerie Eliot died on 9 November 2012 at her home in London. read more