Better known as T.S. Eliot, was an American-English poet, playwright, literary critic, and editor. Thomas was born on 26 September 1888, in St. Louis, Missouri into a distinguished family, having their roots both in Old and New England. Named after his maternal grandfather, Thomas Sterns, he was mostly called Tom by his family and friends. He was a leader of the Modernist movement in poetry, his works influenced many established British poets of that day. Major Works · Among all his works, Eliot considered his 1943 book, ‘Four Quarters’, his best. Although it consists of four old poems, ‘Burnt Norton’ (1936), ‘East Coker’ (1940), ‘The Dry Salvages’ (1941)and ‘Little Gidding’ (1942), most scholars refer to it as his great last work. Although written individually, all of them have common theme, which is man’s relationship with time, universe and God. To make his point, he had imported philosophical works and cultural traditions from various eastern as well as w...