T. S. Eliot
1888 to 1965
9 documented presences
8 places
Quo Fuit places 9 dated presences for T. S. Eliot across 8 places, from 1906 to 1965. Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.
Thomas Stearns Eliot (26 September 1888 to 4 January 1965) was a poet, essayist and playwright.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
Where T. S. Eliot was documented, and when
1906 to 1909period
Harvard Collegeattested
“He studied at Harvard College from 1906 to 1909, earning a Bachelor of Arts in an elective programme similar to comparative literature in 1909 and a Master of Arts in English literature the following year.”
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1909 to 1911period
Harvardattested
“After working as a philosophy assistant at Harvard from 1909 to 1910, Eliot moved to Paris where, from 1910 to 1911, he studied philosophy at the University of Paris.”
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1909 to 1911period
Parisattested
“After working as a philosophy assistant at Harvard from 1909 to 1910, Eliot moved to Paris where, from 1910 to 1911, he studied philosophy at the University of Paris.”
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1914year
Londonattested
“Eliot wrote to Conrad Aiken on New Year's Eve 1914: "I hate university towns and university people, who are the same everywhere, with pregnant wives, sprawling children, many books and hideous pictures on the walls [...] Oxford is very p…”
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1959year
Englandattested
“During an interview in 1959, Eliot said of his nationality and its role in his work: "I'd say that my poetry has obviously more in common with my distinguished contemporaries in America than with anything written in my generation in Engl…”
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1959year
Americaattested
“During an interview in 1959, Eliot said of his nationality and its role in his work: "I'd say that my poetry has obviously more in common with my distinguished contemporaries in America than with anything written in my generation in Engl…”
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4 January 1965exact date
Londonattested
“Eliot died of emphysema at his home in Kensington in London, on 4 January 1965, and was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium.”
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4 January 1965exact date
Kensingtonattested
“Eliot died of emphysema at his home in Kensington in London, on 4 January 1965, and was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium.”
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4 January 1965exact date
Golders Green Crematoriumattested
“Eliot died of emphysema at his home in Kensington in London, on 4 January 1965, and was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium.”
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Places T. S. Eliot is documented in
London2 presences · 1914 to 1965America1 presence · 1959England1 presence · 1959Golders Green Crematorium1 presence · 1965Harvard1 presence · 1909Harvard College1 presence · 1906Kensington1 presence · 1965Paris1 presence · 1909
Other places tied to T. S. Eliot in the record
In each of these, a source puts T. S. Eliot and the place in the same dated sentence without stating that T. S. Eliot was there. They are kept apart from the timeline above for exactly that reason: a mention is not a presence, and Quo Fuit does not quietly promote one into the other.
February 1905month
Mary Institute and St. Louis Country Day Schoolmentioned
“His first published poem, "A Fable For Feasters", was written as a school exercise and was published in the Smith Academy Record in February 1905.”
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April 1905month
Harvardmentioned
“Also published there in April 1905 was his oldest surviving poem in manuscript, an untitled lyric, later revised and reprinted as "Song" in The Harvard Advocate.”
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1911 to 1914period
Harvardmentioned
“From 1911 to 1914, he was back at Harvard studying Indian philosophy and Sanskrit.”
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1914year
Merton College, Oxfordmentioned
“Eliot was awarded a scholarship to Merton College, Oxford, in 1914.”
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1914 to 1927period
Oxfordmentioned
“He exchanged letters with her from Oxford during 1914 and 1915, but they did not meet again until 1927.”
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1915year
Birkbeck, University of Londonmentioned
“In 1915 he taught English at Birkbeck College, University of London.”
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1917year
Londonmentioned
“In 1917 he took a position at Lloyds Bank in London, working on foreign accounts.”
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August 1920month
Parismentioned
“On a trip to Paris in August 1920 with the artist Wyndham Lewis, he met the writer James Joyce.”
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1932 to 1933period
Englandmentioned
“When Harvard offered him the Charles Eliot Norton professorship for the 1932–1933 academic year, he accepted and left Vivienne in England.”
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1933 to 1934period
University of Virginiamentioned
“In lectures delivered at the University of Virginia in 1933 (published in 1934 under the title After Strange Gods: A Primer of Modern Heresy), Eliot wrote of societal tradition and coherence, "What is still more important [than cultural…”
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1934year
Diocese of Londonmentioned
“A pageant play by Eliot called The Rock was performed in 1934 for the benefit of churches in the Diocese of London.”
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1938year
Lewis'smentioned
“Eliot and Wyndham Lewis also maintained a close friendship, leading to Lewis's later making his well-known portrait painting of Eliot in 1938.”
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1938year
Northumberland Housementioned
“Vivienne was committed to the Northumberland House mental hospital in Woodberry Down, Manor House, London, in 1938, and remained there until she died.”
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1938year
Woodberry Downmentioned
“Vivienne was committed to the Northumberland House mental hospital in Woodberry Down, Manor House, London, in 1938, and remained there until she died.”
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1939year
1950year
1957 to 1965period
Documented at the same place, the same year
Winston ChurchillHyde Park Gate · 1965Walter Bradford CannonHarvard College · 1906Joseph ConradEngland · 1914Ezra PoundEngland · 1914Maria Feodorovna (Dagmar of Denmark)England · 1914Han van MeegerenEngland · 1914Muhammad Ali JinnahEngland · 1914Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl KitchenerEngland · 1914Bruce LeeUnited States · 1959Nikita KhrushchevUnited States · 1959SukarnoUnited States · 1959Italo CalvinoUnited States · 1959
Two people documented in the same place in the same year is a correlation, not a meeting. Quo Fuit will never say they met without a source that says so.
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Sources
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