Early life and education
The Eliots were a Boston Brahmin family, with roots in England and New England. Eliot's paternal grandfather, William Greenleaf Eliot, had moved to St. Louis, Missouri, to establish a

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For a poet of his stature, Eliot produced a relatively small number of poems. He was aware of this even early in his career. He wrote to J.H. Woods, one of his former Harvard professors, "My

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With the important exception of Four Quartets, Eliot directed much of his creative energies after Ash Wednesday to writing plays in verse,

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Eliot also made significant contributions to the field of literary criticism, and strongly influenced the school of New Criticism. He was somewhat self

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Eliot influenced many poets, novelists, and songwriters, including Seán Ó Ríordáin, Máirtín Ó Díreáin, Virginia Woolf, Ezra Pound, Bob Dylan, Hart Crane, William Gaddis, Allen Tate, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Trevor Nunn, Ted Hughes, Geoffrey Hill, Seamus Heaney

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Below is a partial list of honours and awards received by Eliot or bestowed or created in his honour.
National or state honours
These honours are displayed in order of precedence based on Eliot's nationality and rules of protocol, not

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Responses to his poetry
The writer Ronald Bush notes that Eliot's early poems like "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", "Portrait of a Lady", "La Figlia Che Piange",

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