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© Harris J. Sobin; reproduced with the permission of King’s College Archives, Cambridge.

A Life in Pictures

Eliot’s life in photographs, including previously unpublished images.

Birth

A photograph of T. S. Eliot’s parents at the family dining-table of their home St Louis, taken by Henry Eliot in 1917.

St Louis

Photograph of Eliot’s childhood home in St Louis, taken by the poet’s brother.

Gloucester, Massachusetts

Photograph of the Eliots’ summer-house in Gloucester, Massachusetts, taken by the poet’s brother.

Smith, Milton, Harvard

Photograph of a young Eliot outside Smith Academy, which he attended between 1898 and 1905.

The Parisian Year, 1910–1911

Photograph of the building in which T. S. Eliot lodged 1910–1911

Philosopher and a Poet

A page of T. S. Eliot’s copy of F. H. Bradley’s Appearance and Reality, with annotations in Eliot’s hand.

Marburg, London, Oxford

The Freshmen of Merton College, 1914

Vivien

The Eliots seated together at Crawford Mansions

Lloyds Bank

A photograph taken by Henry Ware Eliot Jnr., with Lloyds Bank on the left.

A Literary Critic

T. S. Eliot at work in the dining room of his flat in Crawford Mansions

‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’

The cover of the June 1915 Poetry, in which Eliot’s poem ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’ first appeared.

Poems (1920)

The jacket cover of the 1919 edition of Poems, published by the Hogarth Press.

The Waste Land

The title-page of Boni & Liveright's American edition of The Waste Land, published 1922.

The Criterion

Advertisement for The Criterion, posted in the Times Literary Supplement.

Faber & Gwyer

A photograph of the meeting of the Faber & Faber Book Committee, taken in 1944.

Conversion

T. S. Eliot at Salisbury in 1938

The ‘Ariel’ poems and Ash-Wednesday

Ash-Wednesday (1930)

Separation

A photograph of T. S. Eliot picnicking with his sister Ada, among others.

Old Possum

Eliot in the Theatre

T. S. Eliot watching Catherine Lacey during a rehearsal for The Family Reunion.

Four Quartets

A photograph of T. S. Eliot at Shamley Green.

Nobel Prize

T. S. Eliot at the Nobel Prize ceremony.

Valerie

T. S. Eliot and Valerie Eliot in the offices of Faber & Faber

Death

Valerie Eliot laying a wreath on the memorial plaque to her husband

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