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In the summer of 1911, finishes a version of "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
1911-14 Returns to Harvard to study philosophy as a graduate student. 26th June 1915 to Vivien Haigh-Wood, the daughter of a painter and landowner, at Hampstead Registry Office.
2. He goes briefly to Margate and then to Lausanne in Switzerland for therapy under Doctor Roger Vittoz.1922: Eliot shows “The Waste Land” to Ezra Pound in Paris on his way back to London.
He then travels to Paris to study at the Sorbonne for a year, and to see the continent.
1911
Back to Harvard
Eliot returns to Harvard and begins work on a doctorate in philosophy.
1914
Merton College, Oxford
Eliot receives a fellowship to study at Merton College, at Oxford University.
In its seventeen years of existence—all with Eliot as editor—the journal becomes a respected and influential source of literature and criticism. Meanwhile, the Germans begin bombing London, and Eliot serves as a night watchman at his office building to look out for German planes.
1941
"The Dry Salvages"
"The Dry Salvages," a poem written during the London air-raid drills, is published.
1942
"Little Gidding"
"Little Gidding," the fourth poem of the Four Quartets, is published.
1946
Moves in with John Davy Hayward
Eliot moves into an apartment with a friend, editor and critic John Davy Hayward.
He takes a teaching job at Highgate School. Studies with George Santayana and Irving Babbitt.
1910-11 Having finished BA and MA degrees at Harvard, spends a year at the Sorbonne in Paris. In October he begins work on “He Do the Police in Different Voices” which is the forerunner of “The Waste Land”.
1920:All Eliot’s collected verse in print is published as “Ara Vos Prec” in Britain by John Rodker, and “Poems” in the U.S.
by Knopf. He leaves his job at Lloyds and goes to work as an editor for the publishing house Faber & Faber, a position that he holds until his retirement in the 1960s.
1927
British Subject
Eliot becomes a British subject and a member of the Anglican Church at age 39. Amid his rigorous studies (he finishes his undergraduate work in just three years and completes his master's work in a fourth), Eliot finds time to write poems for the Harvard Advocate.
1910
Harvard to Sorbonne
Eliot graduates from Harvard with bachelor's and master's degrees.
Instead he begins working as an extra-mural lecturer part-time for the University of London.
1917: In March he joins Lloyd’s Bank (Colonial and Foreign department). Eliot takes a position at Lloyds Bank in the Colonial and Foreign Department.
1919 Ara Vos Prec published, with "Gerontion" and the poems later published in Poems – 1920.
Eliot Born
Thomas Stearns Eliot is born in St. Louis, Missouri, the sixth and last surviving child of Henry Ware Eliot and Charlotte Stearns Eliot.
1898
Enrolls in Smith Academy
Eliot begins school at Smith Academy, an all-boys preparatory school for Washington University in St. Louis. Eliot: Biographical Timeline
1888 September 26: Thomas Stearns Eliot born in St.
Louis, Missouri to Henry Ware and Charlotte Stearns Eliot.
1898 A student at Smith Academy in St. Louis
1905 To Milton Academy in Massachusetts
1906-10 Undergraduate years at Harvard. His play “The Rock” is performed in London by an amateur cast.
In November he becomes a British Citizen. “Journey of the Magi” is published at Christmas, the first of his Ariel Poems.
1929:Death of his mother.
1930: Publication of “Ash Wednesday”.
1933:He gives the Page-Barbour lectures at the University of Virginia afterwards published as “After Strange Gods“.
1933:Eliot separates from his wife Vivienne after his return from a year working as a lecturer at Harvard University, U.S.A.
He first moved to the United Kingdom, though, in 1914 at the age of 25.
1930
"Ash Wednesday"
"Ash Wednesday," a poem about Eliot's religious awakening, is published.
1932
A Year at Harvard
Eliot accepts a yearlong teaching position at Harvard, his alma mater.
“Prufrock and other Observations” is published in this Journal.
1918:T.S. He joins the Editorial Board of “Christian Newsletter”. He becomes Assistant Editor of Harriet Shaw Weaver’s “Egoist” in June. Its first issue carries Eliot's poem The Waste Land, a 434-line epic about the alienation of post-World War I life.
“The Rock”.
1935: “Murder in the Cathedral”. (Play) “Poems, 1909-1935”.
1936: “Essays Ancient and Modern”.
1939: “The Idea of a Christian Society”.