1. Thomas Eliot
In 1906 he was admitted to Harvard University, where he studied philosophy and European literature, mainly of the Renaissance period. ... The next year, in 1910, Thomas Eliot sailed overseas to France, where he would attend Henri Bergson's lectures in philosophy of intuitivism at the Sorbonne. 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 poet to find his own style - unique, though close to that of the imagists. ... From 1...
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