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TSE with W B Yeats, #BOTD 1865.
In his 1940 essay on Yeats - the 1st annual Yeats
Lecture delivered @AbbeyTheatre - TSE praised
Yeats as the pre-eminent 'poet of middle age', an artist
with the unique honesty and courage to constantly
renew his craft rather than mimic his youth.
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Poet, critic, playwright… croquet champion?
TSE putting his mallet skills to the test in a family game of croquet in New Hampshire, June 1933.
#tseliot #croquet #newhampshire
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'So we come to see Huck himself in the end as one of the permanent symbolic figures of fiction; not unworthy to take a place with Ulysses, Faust, Don Quixote, Don Juan, Hamlet and other great discoveries that man has made about himself.'
T. S. Eliot,
'Introduction to the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'
On 9 June 1953, T. S. Eliot delivered his address 'American Literature and the American Language' at Washington University, St Louis as part of their centenary celebrations.
'Huck Finn' was highly rated by Eliot who called it a 'masterpiece'.
#tseliot #americanliterature
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On 9 June 1953, T. S. Eliot delivered his address 'American Literature and the American Language' at Washington University, St Louis as part of their centenary celebrations.
'Huck Finn' was highly rated by Eliot who called it a 'masterpiece'.
#tseliot #americanliterature
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📆3 June 1938
'But many of us... do not find out exactly what our job is except through many attempts and failures.'
Eliot's words of advice to pupils at the Truro School in Cornwall in his Speech Day address delivered #onthisday in 1938.
#tseliot
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Libraries Change Lives Week✨
'...it was the London Library that made my literary journalism possible.'
TSE on his debt to @TheLondonLib
#tseliot #libraries
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Happy World Sailing Day🌊
TSE sailing off the New England coast during the summer of 1907.
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“A great theme greatly handled and there is nothing more impressive to be seen in a London theatre.” – Daily Telegraph
T.S. Eliot’s ‘pageant play’ The Rock had its premiere @Sadlers_Wells on this day 28 May 1934
ALT First Edition, on sale at the theatre on opening night
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#OTD in 1896 a cyclone tore through St Louis, tearing down buildings and causing widespread destruction.
The following day Eliot’s brother photographed the aftermath. He captured members of the Eliot family, including a young Eliot perched on the gate, outside their home.
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📆25 May 1941
TSE on how to appreciate #poetry recitals and #Shakespeare
'surely it is necessary to read, to see, to read again, and to see again'.
#tseliot #onthisday
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T S Eliot's English translation of St John Perse's Anabase was published #OTD in 1930.
The translation was published side by side with the original French, 'so that readers may judge for themselves of the merit and accuracy of the translation, and of the beauty of the original.'
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T. S. Eliot Foundation retweeted
The T. S. Eliot Foundation is delighted to announce the judges for the T. S. Eliot Prize 2026. Leontia Flynn (Chair) will be joined on the panel by fellow poets Ishion Hutchinson and Daisy Lafarge.
Find out more at tseliot.com/prize!
ALT Leontia Flynn
ALT Ishion Hutchinson
ALT Daisy Lafarge
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The incredible @EdwardBluemel presents ‘Lines Written in Early Spring’ by William Wordsworth.
Edward’s reading forms part of Dead Poets School, our free resource for GCSE students who – in this case – are studying poems on AQA Worlds and Lives.
📸Alex Gabbott
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The paper might be brittle, but the colours of the Poems (1919) cover are as vibrant today as they were when Leonard & Virginia Woolf hand painted them at the Hogarth Press in 1919.
Poems was one of the 1st books published by the Woolfs who hand-set the text and created...
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...this marble patterned design on the back of some wallpaper. The print run was small, running to about 200 copies.
Eliot’s second volume of poetry included ‘Sweeney among the Nightingales’, ‘Whispers of Immortality’ and ‘Lune de miel’.
#tseliot #poetry #publishing
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Line-up and tickets released for the Annual T.S. Eliot Festival at Little Gidding on Sunday July 5th - details on our News page: tseliotsociety.uk
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TSE, aged 6, with his father on a boat in the Cape Ann coastal city of Gloucester, Massachusetts, where the Eliot family spent their summers.
Photograph taken in 1895.
#tseliot #gloucesterma
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