T. S. Eliot — a remark

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“What we need is not information but knowledge: the first step to knowledge is to recognize the differences between his form of thought and feeling and ours.”

Distinguishing genuine historical understanding from the accumulation of facts · Essay, Dante

About T. S. Eliot

T. S. Eliot

26 September 1888–4 January 1965

Thomas Stearns Eliot was born on 26 September 1888 in St. Louis, Missouri, and died on 4 January 1965 in London. In the course of a life that crossed the Atlantic both literally and imaginatively, he became one of the defining writers of literary modernism: a poet whose fractured early works gave memorable form to…

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