The University of Iowa

Thomas Stearns (T.S.) Eliot

Biography

T.S. Eliot was a graduate student at Merton College, Oxford (1914-1915). This association is notable because of the use of an excerpt of his poem Little Gidding in Gabriel Jackson's The Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ which was premiered at Merton College to celebrate their 750th anniversary of the founding of the college.

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