T.S. Eliot

Some of Eliot's most famous lines from The Hollow Men:

This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.

T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) was born in Missouri U.S.A. He went to Harvard University and La Sorbonne. He moved to Oxford in 1914 and acquired British nationality in 1927.His poems articulated the disillusionment of a younger post war generation.
The Wasteland (Tierra Yerma) is considered to be one of the most influential poetic works of the twentieth century in the English language.
A leading poet of the avant -garde, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948.