In 1914 Eliot took up a post at Merton College, Oxford, as a visiting fellow in philosophy. A career in academia beckoned, but whilst studying for his PhD Eliot had a revelatory encounter with the work of the French Symbolist poets, in particular Jules Laforgue, and began composing poetry under their influence. After a year in Paris, Eliot began work at Harvard on his doctoral thesis on the philosophy of F. He attended Harvard where his eclectic course of studies introduced him to Hindu and Buddhist philosophy and a working knowledge of Sanskrit (he already knew Latin, Greek, French and German). Louis, Missouri to a prominent local family. Eliot (1888-1965) as a poet and critic came to define the modernist movement and still dominates the literary landscape of the last century.
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