T.S. Eliot
(1888-1965), PoetThomas Stearns ('T.S.') Eliot
Sitter in 68 portraits
Missouri-born, Eliot settled in England before the First World War. Working in Lloyd's Bank, he published Prufrock and Other Observations (1917), and Poems (1919), hand-printed at the Hogarth Press by Leonard and Virginia Woolf. Eliot founded the journal, The Criterion, in 1922, publishing his now famous poem, The Waste Land, in the first issue. In 1925 he joined the publishing house Faber & Faber and established a reputation for promoting younger writers including W.H. Auden and Stephen Spender. He became a British subject in 1927. Later work included Murder in the Cathedral (1935) and Four Quartets (1935-42). He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948.
by Ida Kar
2 1/4 inch square colour transparency, circa 1964
NPG x88695
by Ida Kar
2 1/4 inch square colour transparency, circa 1964
NPG x125027
by Ida Kar
2 1/4 inch square colour transparency, circa 1964
NPG x125028
by Ida Kar
2 1/4 inch square colour transparency, circa 1964
NPG x125029
by Edgar Holloway
etching, 1934
NPG D2301
by Bill Brandt
bromide print, published in Harper's Bazaar, New York July 1945
NPG P190
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