T. S. Eliot

T. S. EliotRenowned American poet, dramatist, and critic. Born in St. Louis, Thomas Stearns Eliot was educated at Harvard. From his first marriage in 1915 he spent the rest of his life in Britain. Eliot and JJ first met in Paris in 1920. Eliot's major poem "The Waste Land" was published in 1922 only months after Ulysses. The two had only sporadic contact until Eliot joined the publisher Faber & Faber in 1925. The firm published works on JJ, three fragments from "Work in Progress", and finally in 1939 Finnegans Wake. Despite frequent tension between the two in publication matters, Eliot was an unceasing supporter of JJ's work. His review, "Ulysses, Order, and Myth" (The Dial 75 [November 1923]: 480-83) remains one of the most influential evaluations of the novel. Eliot was largely responsible for maintaining JJ's posthumous prominence with his editing of Introducing James Joyce: A Selection of Joyce's Prose (London: Faber & Faber, 1942). Eliot largely abandoned poetry in the 1940s, preferring to write for the stage, and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. William Brockman

T. S. Eliot，美国著名诗人、剧作家及评论家。托马斯·斯特尔那斯·艾略特出生于圣路易斯，曾在哈佛大学接受教育。自1915年首次婚姻起，他余生皆在英国度过。艾略特与J.J.在1920年的巴黎初次相遇。艾略特的代表作《荒原》于1922年出版，仅比《尤利西斯》晚几个月。两人直至1925年艾略特加入Faber & Faber出版社后，才有了间断性的联系。该出版社出版了J.J.的作品，包括《工作进展》中的三个片段，最终于1939年出版了《芬尼根的守灵夜》。尽管在出版事宜上两人之间经常存在紧张关系，但艾略特始终不渝地支持J.J.的作品。他的评论文章《尤利西斯、秩序与神话》（《 dial》第75卷[1923年11月]：480-83）仍是对这部小说最具影响力的评价之一。艾略特在20世纪40年代主要放弃了诗歌创作，转而从事戏剧写作，并于1948年获得了诺贝尔文学奖。威廉·布罗克曼