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Valerie Eliot |
Tribute to TS Eliot
THE widow of TS Eliot unveiled a green plaque at the Marylebone home where he lived between 1916 and 1920.
Valerie Eliot, 83, was joined by poets Sean O’Brien and Craig Raine outside the house in Crawford Street to mark the occasion.
The American-born poet, who wrote The Waste Land and the Lovesong of J Alfred Prufrock, died in 1965 aged 76. He moved to London in 1914, gaining citizinship in 1927 at the age of 39.
Mr O’Brien, winner of the TS Eliot prize for poetry said: “TS Eliot is one of the greatest modern poets and in particular a great poet of the city.
“It is therefore most appropriate that he should have a plaque in the City of Westminster.” |
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