What Do You Know About Thomas Stearns Eliot And Henry Fielding ?

Eliot Thomas Stearns: (1888-1965); Poet and critic American birth, he became a British subject in 1927. "The waste Land" (1922), and other early poems brought him wide recognition. During the 1920's and 1930's his poetry (esp. "Ash Wednesday" 1930), his first play ("Murder in the Cathedral", 1935) and his extremely influential criticism ("The Sacred wood, 1920) and later volumes, together with his work as editor of ("The Criterion" 1922-39) were largely responsible for a revolution in English and American taste.

He emerged as the leading writer in English of his generation. Other plays are "The Family Reunion" (1939), "The Cocktail party" (1950), and "The Confidential Clerk" (1954). His early poetry was thought to express the disillusion of the postwar generation; it could more accurately be taken as the poetic examination of a bereft word, without belief. Most of his work is a prolonged exploration of the linguistic, cultural and philosophical means of restoring or creating the possibility of positive belief. Perhaps his greatest work is "Four Quartets" (1936-1942).

Fielding, Henry: (1707-1754); English novelist. His first published novel "Joseph Andrews" (1742), which he described as "a comic epic poem in prose", began as a parody of Richardson's "Pamela", "the history of Tom Jones, a Foundling" (1749) is his best and most popular work.