ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Born in St. Louis, Missouri, to a prominent Boston Brahmin family, he moved to England in 1914 at the age of 25 and went on to settle, work, and marry there. He became a British citizen in 1927 at the age of 39, subsequently renouncing his American citizenship.

Detailed explanation-2: -On the 2nd of November 1927 T. S. Eliot was granted a Certificate of Naturalization; the following day he swore an Oath of Allegiance to King George the fifth, his heirs and successors, thereby becoming a naturalised British citizen.

Detailed explanation-3: -T.S. Eliot was an American-English poet, playwright, literary critic, and editor. He is best known as a leader of the Modernist movement in poetry and as the author of such works as The Waste Land (1922) and Four Quartets (1943).

Detailed explanation-4: -Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965) was born in St. Louis, Missouri, of an old New England family. He was educated at Harvard and did graduate work in philosophy at the Sorbonne, Harvard, and Merton College, Oxford.