Location: Cremated, ashes taken to St Michael and All Angels Church, East Coker, Somerset, England
Cause of Death: Emphysema
Photo taken by: Clive and Chris
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Playwright, literary critic, and an important English-language poet of the 20th century. Although he was born an American he moved to the United Kingdom in 1914 and was naturalised as a British subject in 1927.
The poem that made his name, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock —started in 1910 and published in Chicago in 1915—is regarded as a masterpiece of the modernist movement. He followed this with what have become some of the best-known poems in the English language, including The Waste Land (1922) and Four Quartets (1945). He is also known for his seven plays, particularly Murder in the Cathedral (1935). He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948.
Eliot's ashes were taken to St Michael's Church, East Coker, the village from which his ancestors had emigrated to America. A wall plaque commemorates him with a quotation from his poem East Coker:
"In my beginning is my end. In my end is my beginning."
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