1. Thomas Eliot
Poetry of the period seemed to have exhausted its civic and moral spirit, peculiar to the works of the great masters of the past like Shakespeare, Milton and Byron. ... There he studied basic disciplines first at Smith Academy, then at Milton College in Massachusetts. ... These ideas would only deepen later on, as he got to know the works of British neo-Hegelian philosophers F.H. ... Eliot's study of the poetry of Dante, of the English writers John Webster and John Donne, and of the French symbolist Jules Laforgue, along with the influence of his new tutor-guide Bergson, helped the young...
- Word Count: 1915
- Approx Pages: 8
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- Grade Level: Undergraduate