FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
POETRY
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Denver
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St Louis
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Cuba
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Toronto
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Detailed explanation-1: -Eliot lived in St. Louis, Missouri, for the first 16 years of his life at the house on Locust Street where he was born.
Detailed explanation-2: -But, of course, he grew up in St. Louis, and some of the landscapes that seem distinctly English to many readers in his poetry, like the “yellow fog” in “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, ” were recollected from his childhood there. The Eliots were originally from New England, though.
Detailed explanation-3: -4446 Westminster Place was built in 1904 Architect/Builder Henry W. Eliot. The Federal Revival Townhouse gains its historic significance because it was the home of the poet T.S. Eliot.
Detailed explanation-4: -Eliot grew up the scion of a distinguished family of preachers, educators and wealthy businessmen (his father owned a brick factory). As the youngest of six surviving children, Tom was distinctly cosseted, especially by his doting mother (who wrote poetry).
Detailed explanation-5: -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.