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Monster Essays - T. S. Eliot's "The Hollow Men"
T. S. Eliot's "The Hollow Men"
Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in St. Louis, Missouri of New England
descent, on Sept. 26, 1888. He entered Harvard University in 1906, completed
his courses in three years and earned a master's degree the next year. After a
year at the Sorbonne in Paris, he returned to Harvard. Further study led him to
Merton College, Oxford, and he decided to stay in England. He worked first as a
teacher and then in Lloyd's Bank until 1925. Then he joined the London
publishing firm of Faber and Gwyer, becoming director when the firm became Faber
and Faber in 1929. Eliot won the Nobel prize for literature in 1948 and other
major literary a....
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