September 26, 2005

Happy Birthday Cat Man

Filed under: Almanac - Ric @ 10:51 am

It’s the birthday of Thomas Stearns (T.S.) Eliot, born into a prominent Unitarian family in Saint Louis (1888). He loved the poetry of Edgar Allen Poe. He was a birdwatcher. He liked to watch steamboats going up the Mississippi. He didn’t have many friends in St. Louis or when he went to Harvard. He moved to England and got a job as a banker. He married a 26-year-old ballet dancer who he never was completely comfortable with. He couldn’t bring himself to shave in front of her. Virginia Woolf said of Elliot, “He was one of those poets who live by scratching, and his wife was his itch.”

From the Writer’s Almanac by Garrison Keillor
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