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Thomas Stearns Eliot

(1888-1965)

Thomas Stearns Eliot
Image: Harvard University Portrait Collection,
Gift of Mrs. Stanley B. Resor for Eliot House
Attended Harvard (A.B. 1909; A.M. 1911)
Taught at Harvard (Norton Lecturer, 1932-1933)

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

  Academy of American Poets Biography
Harvard American National Biography Online
  The Poetry Foundation Biography

HARVARD COLLECTIONS

General Overview
Hollis HOLLIS Catalog Author Search: Thomas Stearns Eliot
Hollis HOLLIS Catalog Subject Search: Thomas Stearns Eliot
Rare Materials
Oasis Finding Aid: T. S. Eliot Miscellaneous Papers, 1910-1979 
Includes correspondence, compositions, drawings, and photographs of T. S. Eliot, Henry Ware Eliot, Theresa Garrett Eliot, Theodora Eliot Smith, and others.
Oasis Finding Aid: Correspondence and Compositions of T. S. Eliot and Henry Ware Eliot, 1904-1956 
Includes correspondence of Henry Ware Eliot and T.S. Eliot with publishers, Yale University curator Donald Gallup, and to family members. ‬
Oasis Finding Aid: T. S. Eliot Collection, 1881-1994 
The focus of these materials is the life and work of the poet, T.S. Eliot, collected by members of his immediate family. The Collection includes correspondence, compositions, biographical and genealogical miscellany, images, and printed materials on T.S. Eliot.
Hollis HOLLIS Search: T.S. Eliot Finding Aids
Digital Highlights
  Googlebooks: Poems (A. A. Knopf, 1920) 
Digitized from the Harvard Collection.

ADDITIONAL LINKS

  The Harvard Gazette: "Atkins, Dennehy to Perform Poems of T.S. Eliot" (April 2, 2009)
  Googlebooks: Four Quartets (Harcourt, Brace and Company, c1943)
  Googlebooks: The Waste Land and Other Poems; Selected and with an Introduction by Helen Vendler (Signet Classic, 1998)
  Googlebooks: The Annotated Waste Land with Eliot's Contemporary Prose (Yale University Press, c2005)