Tristan Corbière
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Tristan Corbière, born Édouard-Joachim Corbière, was a French poet born in Coat-Congar, Ploujean in Brittany, where he lived most of his life before dying of tuberculosis at the age of 29. He was a Fr
Portrait of Tristan Corbière, ca. 1865
T. S. Eliot
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Thomas Stearns Eliot was a poet, essayist and playwright. He was a leading figure of modernist poetry in the English language where he altered the art through his use of pessimistic language, writing
Tristan Corbière
…for Romantic sentimentalism, his work is also characterised by its idiomatic play and exceptional modernity. He was praised by both Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot (whose work he had a great influence on). Eliot used his self-description as "Mélange adultère de tout" as the title for one of his own (French) poems…
Eliot in 1934
Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot, passport photograph from 1920
A plaque at SOAS's Faber Building, 24 Russell Square, London
The Faber & Faber building where Eliot worked from 1925 to 1965; the commemorative plaque is under the right-hand arch.