Thomas Stearns Elliot is considered to be a major figure in English literature. Born in St Louis, Missouri, he settled in England in 1914 and became a British subject in 1927. At Harvard University he studied to become a philosopher. However, his interests and vast reading of religion and anthropology as well as Elizabethan poets and the latest French imagists, left him writing a completely new kind of English poetry.
Payne, Tom. "T.S. Eliot." A-Z of Great Writers, Carlton Books, 1997.
Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the shadow
The Hollow Man, 1925