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Writer TS. Eliot Dedication To Doing The Best Work Helped Him Make His Mark In Literature.(A)(Leaders & Success)
Byline: Nancy Gondo
Investor's Business Daily
Thomas Stearns Eliot spent two years of his childhood at the dentist's office, but it wasn't because he had bad teeth.
It was where he'd found the collected works of one of his favorite authors, Edgar Allan Poe.
Twice a week, without fail, he went to sit in the waiting room so he could get through the entire Poe collection. Eliot (1888-1965) always liked reading. He spent more time reading than meeting friends or play
ing sports.
But this contact with poets' and authors' works helped him craft his own style of writing as an adult. He's still known today as a leader of the modernist movement in poetry in the 20th century, according to the Encyclopedia Britannica. Eliot's works were rewarded with the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948.
Back in St. Louis, the young boy soon began writing his own poetry. He…
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