T. S. Eliot, on literature:

The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.

- T. S. Eliot.

Born on this day – T. S. Eliot:

T. S. Eliot

Writer

September 26, 1888 – January 4, 1965

Credits:

Written work:

Prufrock and Other Observations (1917); Ara Vus Prec. (1919); The Waste Land (1922); Poems 1909-1925 (1925); Journey of the Magi (1927); A Song for Simeon (1928); Animula (1929); Selected Poems (1930); Ash Wednesday (1930); Marina (1930); Triumphal march (1931); Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939); East Coker (1941); The Dry Salvages (1941); T.S. Eliot's Little Gidding (1942); Four Quartets (1943); Burnt Norton (1943); Collected Poems of T. S. Eliot: 1909-1935 (1945); The Undergraduate Poems of T. S. Eliot (1948); The Complete Poems and Plays (1952); The Cultivation of Christmas Trees (1954); Collected Poems, 1909-1962 (1963); Poems Written In Early Youth (1967); The Poems of T. S. Eliot (2018); Eeldrop and Appleplex & Ezra Pound (1917); Sweeney Agonistes (1932); The Rock (1934); Murder in the Cathedral (1935); The Family Reunion (1939); The Cocktail Party (1949); The Confidential Clerk (1950); The Film of Murder in The Cathedral (1952); The Elder Statesman (1959); Collected Plays (1962); The Complete Plays of T. S. Eliot (2014); Ezra Pound (1918); The Sacred Wood and Major Early Essays (1920); Homage to John Dryden (1924); John Dryden (1924); Shakespeare and the Stoicism of Seneca (1927); For Lancelot Andrewes (1928); Dante (1929); Thoughts after Lambeth (1931); Charles Whibley: A Memoir (1931); Essays On Elizabethan Drama (1932); After Strange Gods (1934); Essays Ancient and Modern (1936); Christianity and Culture (1939); Idea of a Christian Society (1939); A Choice of Kipling's Verse (1941); Introducing James Joyce (1942); Reunion By Destruction (1943); What is a classic? (1945); Notes Towards a Definition of Culture (1948); Milton; Annual Lecture on a Master Mind (1948); From Poe to Valery (1948); The Aims of Poetic Drama (1949); Selected Essays (1950); Poetry and Drama (1951); An Address to Members of the London Library (1952); The Value and Use of Cathedrals in England To-Day (1952); American Literature and the American Language (1953); The Three Voices of Poetry (1954); Religious Drama: Mediaeval and Modern (1954); The Literature of Politics (1955); The Frontiers of Criticism (1956); On Poetry And Poets (1957); Geoffrey Faber, 1889-1961 (1961); George Herbert (1962); The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism (1964); To Criticize the Critic and Other Writings (1965); Elizabethan Essays (1969); The Classics And The Man Of Letters (1974); Knowledge and Experience in the Philosophy of F.H. Bradley (1989); The Letters of T.S. Eliot: Volume 1 (1988); The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 2 (2009); The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 3 (2012); The Letters of T. S. Eliot: Volume 4 (2013); The Letters of T. S. Eliot: Volume 5 (2014); The Letters of T. S. Eliot: Volume 6 (2016); Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 7 (2017); Letters of T. S. Eliot: Volume 8 (2019); The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 9 (2021); Identity And Self Respect (1952); Writers At Work: The Paris Review Interviews (1957); The Caedmon Treasury of Modern Poets Reading Their Own Poetry (1992); Watch for the Light: Readings for Advent and Christmas (2001); Writers: Their Lives and Works (2018).

Movies and television:

A Lovesong (2016); Aline (2020); American Playhouse (1983); America's Got Talent (2019); Animal Practice (2012); Apocalypse Now (1979); Arena (2009); Ashes (1975); Assassinio nella Cattedrale (1966); Assassinio nella cattedrale (2006 / 2012); Barbra Streisand: Memory (1981); BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950–1955); Birthday Girl (2001); BoJack Horseman (2014); Broadway on Broadway (2000); BumtsiBum! (2021); Cats (2019); Cocktailparty (1967); Coctail party (1960); Conflict (1967); Connie and Carla (2004); Cover to Cover (1936); Der Familientag (1965); Der Privatsekretär (1963 / 1977); Deutschland sucht den Superstar (2003); Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules (2011); Die Cocktailparty (1964); Diminishing Returns (2019–2020); Diminishing Returns Diminisodes (2020); Diva (2006); Eufòria (2023); Fame (1985); Four Quartets (2022); Funny People (2009); Glee (2014); Going to Seed (2009); Great Performances (1998–2003); Great Poets: In Their Own Words (2014); Hengaillaan (2023); Hollow Men (2012); Il canto d'amore di Prufrock (1967); In Living Color (1991); Koktel (1967); Logan's Run (1976); Love Flesh (2011); Melvyn Bragg on Class & Culture (2012); Mord im Dom (1962); Murder in the Cathedral (1947 / 1951 / 1962); Mystery Science Theater 3000 (2022); New in November 2011 (2012); No me la puc treure del cap (2010); Omnibus (1971); Omnibus / Segment: The Confidential Clerk (1954); Post Grad (2009); Raphael: Mi gran noche (2013); Rio 2 (2014); Saturday Night Live (1992); School of Rock (2003); Shining Time Station (1989); Solo (1970); Sopro (2021); Stars and the Moon: Betty Buckley Live at the Donmar (2002); Startime (1960); Teatro estudio (1978); Television Theater (1997); Ten Great Writers of the Modern World (1988); Terra desolata (2008); Thames Film (1987); The 37th Annual Tony Awards (1983); The 39th Annual Tony Awards (1985); The 40th Annual Tony Awards (1986); The 43rd Annual Tony Awards (1989); The 51st Annual Tony Awards (1997); The 52nd Annual Tony Awards (1998); The Cocktail Party (1952 / 1957); The Debridement of Rome (2012); The Family Reunion (1959); The Hollow Men (1975 / 2015); The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (2013); The Madhouse on Castle Street / BBC Sunday-Night Play (1960); The Magic of David Copperfield V (1983); The Marvels (2023); The Masked Singer (2022); The Mind and Times of Virginia Woolf (2002); The Reader (2008); The Respectful Prostitute (1964); The Rum Tum Tugger (1984); The Simpsons (2011); The Sunday Programme (2004–2005); The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (2019); The Twentieth Century (1960); The Waste Land (1981 / 1996 / 1999); The Wasteland (2015); The White Chateau (1938); Theatre 625 (1966); Theatre Parade (1936); This Is My Life (1992); Thursday Theatre (1964); Till Human Voices Wake Us (2015); Timeshift (2005); Total Eclipse (1995); Triptych (2018); Tu cara me suena (2016); Wellow (2021); What Happens to the Mountain (2017); Wurlitzer (1985); XI Premis Gaudí de l'Acadèmia del Cinema Català (2019); Yellowjackets (2021).

T. S. Eliot, on writing:

For us, there is only the trying.

The rest is not our business.

- T. S. Eliot.