Eliot attracted widespread attention for his poem, "The Love Song of J. ... Eliot was born into a middle class family originally from New England. ... He studied under such versatile men as William James, George Santayana, Josiah Royce, and Irving Babbitt. ... Eliot's wide-ranging but relatively small corpus of work, the precocious "The Love Song of J. ... Eliot's first truly mature piece of verse, "The Love Song of J. ...

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The twentieth century really begins before the end of the nineteenth century. Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1887 was felt by many to represent the end of an era. An end-of-century stoicism, and a growing pessimism among writers and intellectuals, may be traced to several sources, not least the publication in 1859 of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species which put the existence of God into radical question. Across the whole population, and in the face of rapid economic and social changes, radical doubts about the stability of the existing order were expressed. By the end of the nine...

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