#  Thomas Stearns Eliot 

 



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    Image: Harvard University Portrait Collection,  
Gift of Mrs. Stanley B. Resor for Eliot House 





  



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 Attended Harvard (A.B. 1909; A.M. 1911)  
Taught at Harvard (Norton Lecturer, 1932-1933) Sort   



    





  [Academy of American Poets Biography](http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/18) 





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  [*American National Biography* Online](http://www.anb.org.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/articles/16/16-00501.html) 





    





  [The Poetry Foundation Biography](http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=81338) 





  



 

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    **General Overview** 





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  [HOLLIS Catalog Author Search: Thomas Stearns Eliot](http://lms01.harvard.edu/F/?func=find-c&CCL_TERM=WAN=(%22Eliot,%20T.%20S.%22)&adjacent=1) 





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  [HOLLIS Catalog Subject Search: Thomas Stearns Eliot](http://lms01.harvard.edu/F/?func=find-c&CCL_TERM=WSN=(%22Eliot,%20T.%20S.%22)&adjacent=1) 





    **Rare Materials** 





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  [Finding Aid: T. S. Eliot Miscellaneous Papers, 1910-1979](http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.Hough:hou01362)   
Includes correspondence, compositions, drawings, and photographs of T. S. Eliot, Henry Ware Eliot, Theresa Garrett Eliot, Theodora Eliot Smith, and others. 





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  [Finding Aid: Correspondence and Compositions of T. S. Eliot and Henry Ware Eliot, 1904-1956](http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.Hough:hou01287)   
Includes correspondence of Henry Ware Eliot and T.S. Eliot with publishers, Yale University curator Donald Gallup, and to family members. ‬ 





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  [Finding Aid: T. S. Eliot Collection, 1881-1994](http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.Hough:hou01879)   
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. 





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    **Digital Highlights** 





    





  [Googlebooks: *Poems* (A. A. Knopf, 1920)](http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.FIG:004724914)   
Digitized from the Harvard Collection. 





  



 

    Sort   ##  ADDITIONAL LINKS 

 





    





  [*The Harvard Gazette*: "Atkins, Dennehy to Perform Poems of T.S. Eliot"](http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2009/04/atkins-dennehy-to-perform-poems-of-t-s-eliot/) (April 2, 2009) 





    





  [Googlebooks: *Four Quartets*](http://books.google.com/books?id=tX75N7CXPHMC&printsec=frontcover) (Harcourt, Brace and Company, c1943) 





    





  [Googlebooks: *The Waste Land and Other Poems; Selected and with an Introduction by Helen Vendler*](http://books.google.com/books?id=hVwKqV6-T3wC&printsec=frontcover) (Signet Classic, 1998) 





    





  [Googlebooks: *The Annotated Waste Land with Eliot's Contemporary Prose*](http://books.google.com/books?id=wgUeY1WOHmQC&printsec=frontcover) (Yale University Press, c2005)