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Line 1: {{~~work~~creator}} {{creatorstub}} {{quote\| ''Sweet Thames, run softly, till I end my song.''}}▼ [[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 ~~Possums Book of Practical Cats (Literature)\|Old Possums~~Possum's Book of Practical Cats]]'', inspired the musical ''[[Cats]]''. ~~===~~ {{examples\|Works by Eliot with their own trope pages include: ~~===~~}} * ''[[The Waste Land]]'' * ''[[Old ~~Possums Book of Practical Cats (Literature)\|Old Possums~~Possum's Book of Practical Cats]]'' ~~----~~ ~~=== Other works by Eliot provide examples of: ===~~ {{creatortropes}} * [[Dances and Balls]] * [[Dear Negative Reader]]: ''The Triumph of Bullshit''. Never published in his lifetime, but quite stunning to read. "For Christ's sake, stick it up your ass." Line 19 ⟶ 21: * [[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. * [[Sirens Are Mermaids]] * [[Sophisticated As Hell]]: The aforementioned ''The Triumph of Bullshit''. * [[Stepford Smiler]]: J Alfred Prufrock. {{Nobel Prize in Literature}} {{reflist}} [[Category:~~Poetry~~Poets]] [[Category:Authors]] [[Category:TST. S. Eliot]] [[Category:Creator]]