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| | Introduction to Poetry Online Chapter 9 -- Biography |
 | | Thomas Stearns Eliot was born on September 26, 1888, in St. Louis, Missouri, the seventh and last child of Henry Ware Eliot, a brick manufacturer, and Charlotte (Stearns) Eliot, who was active in social reform and was herself a not-untalented poet. |
 | | William Greenleaf Eliot, the poet's paternal grandfather, had, after his graduation from Harvard in the 1830s, moved to St. Louis, where he became a Unitarian minister, but the New England connection was closely maintained--especially, during Eliot's youth, through the family's summer home on the Atlantic coast in Gloucester, Massachusetts. |
 | | Eliot would finally separate from Vivien in 1933, and would go to great lengths thereafter to avoid personal contact with her; she was subsequently institutionalized, and died in a nursing home in 1947. |
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