“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."
Thomas Stearns Elliot (1888 - 1965), British (American-born) essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic, and "one of the twentieth century's major poets". Eliot attracted widespread attention for his poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915), which is seen as a masterpiece of the Modernist movement. It was followed by some of the best-known poems in the English language, including The Waste Land (1922), The Hollow Men (1925), Ash Wednesday (1930), and Four Quartets (1945). He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948, "for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry." - passed away on this day, January the 4th. “Μόνο αυτοί που ρισκάρουν να πάνε πολύ μακριά μπορεί να ανακαλύψουν πόσο μακριά μπορεί να πάει κανείς.”
Thomas Stearns Elliot (1888 - 1965), British (American-born) essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic, and "one of the twentieth century's major poets". Eliot attracted widespread attention for his poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915), which is seen as a masterpiece of the Modernist movement. It was followed by some of the best-known poems in the English language, including The Waste Land (1922), The Hollow Men (1925), Ash Wednesday (1930), and Four Quartets (1945). He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948, "for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry." - passed away on this day, January the 4th. “Μόνο αυτοί που ρισκάρουν να πάνε πολύ μακριά μπορεί να ανακαλύψουν πόσο μακριά μπορεί να πάει κανείς.”
Thomas Stearns Elliot (1888 - 1965), Αμερικανός ποιητής, θεατρικός συγγραφέας και κριτικός λογοτεχνίας. Θεωρείται ένας από τους σημαντικότερους ποιητές του 20ού αιώνα και ηγετική φυσιογνωμία του μοντερνιστικού κινήματος στην ποίηση. Το 1948 βραβεύτηκε με το Νόμπελ λογοτεχνίας. Ανάμεσα στα πιο γνωστά έργα του ανήκουν το Ερωτικό τραγούδι του Τζ. Προύφροκ (1910), η Έρημη Χώρα (1922), τα Τέσσερα κουαρτέτα (1943) καθώς και το θεατρικό έργο Φονικό στην Εκκλησιά (1935) - απεβίωσε σαν σήμερα, 4 Ιανουαρίου.
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