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[[File:Thomas Stearns Eliot by Lady Ottoline Morrell (1934).jpg|thumb|300px|T.S. Eliot in 1934]]
{{quote|''Sweet Thames, run softly, till I end my song.''}}
 
'''Thomas Stearns ('T. S.') Eliot''' was a poet, raised in America but who lived his adult life in England. ''[[The Waste Land]]'' is his most famous poem.
 
One of his lighter works, ''[[Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats|Old Possums Book of Practical Cats]]'', inspired the musical ''[[Cats]]''.
 
One of his lighter works, ''[[Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats|Old Possums Book of Practical Cats]]'', inspired the musical ''[[Cats]]''.
 
{{examples|Works by Eliot with their own trope pages include:}}
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* ''[[Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats]]''
 
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* [[Dances and Balls]]
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* [[Lying Creator]]: Admitted that the notes attached to ''The Waste Land'' were there to fill space, and that at least some of them were intentionally misleading.
* [[Mind Screw]]
* [[Self-Deprecation]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20070912164306/http://www.jjaro.net/eliot/five-finger-exercises.html "How unpleasant to meet Mr. Eliot!"]
* [[Sexless Marriage]]: Eliot's.
* [[Shout-Out]]: Eliot was a master of allusion, weaving it throughout his works.
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* [[Stepford Smiler]]: J Alfred Prufrock.
 
{{Nobel Prize in Literature}}
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