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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.''}}
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One of his lighter works, ''[[Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats]]'', inspired the musical ''[[Cats]]''.
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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.
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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.
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Sweet Thames, run softly, till I end my song. |
One of his lighter works, Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, inspired the musical Cats.
Works by Eliot with their own trope pages include:
T.S. Eliot provides examples of the following tropes:
- 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."
- Light Is Good
- Literary Allusion Title: Aside from inspiring many of these, Portrait of a Lady is a reference to a novel by Henry James.
- 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: "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.