T. S. Eliot, poet, 1888-1965

T. S. Eliot was "one of the twentieth century's major poets". He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948, "for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry". Although Eliot's poetry is not as influential as it once was, notable literary scholars still acknowledge that Eliot's poetry is central to the literary English canon. 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).