Timeline of T.S. Eliot

The following timeline attempts to cover all the major milestones of Eliot's life and career.

`September 26, 1888`	T(homas) S(tearns) Eliot is born in Saint Louis, Missouri.
`1906-1909`	Undergraduate at Harvard. Discovery of the symbolists and Laforgue.
`1909-1910`	Graduate student at Harvard. Early poems, including "Portrait of a Lady" and beginnings of "Prufrock".
`1910-1911`	Studies in France and Germany. "Prufrock" completed.
`1911-1914`	Graduate student at Harvard. Commenced work on the philosophy of Francis Herbert Bradley.
`1914-1915`	Study in Germany cut off by war. Residence at Oxford. Short satiric poems. "Prufrock" published in Chicago, June 1915. Marriage to Vivien Haigh-Wood, July 1915.
`1915-1919`	Eliot holds several jobs, including being a teacher, bank clerk and assistant editor of the literary magazine Egoist.
`1915-1916`	Teaching and book reviewing in London. Bradley thesis completed.
`1915`	Eliot becomes a resident of London. "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
`1917-1920`	Employee of Lloyd's Bank. Numerous editorial and reviewing assignments. Writing of French poems, quatrain poems, "Gerontion."
`1917`	Prufrock and Other Observations, June 1917
`1921-1922`	London correspondent for The Dial.
`1922-1939`	Founder and editor of The Criterion.
`1922`	"The Waste Land" Eliot wins Dial Award for The Waste Land. London correspondent for Revue Française.
`1926-1927`	"Fragment of a Prologue," "Fragment of an Agon," essays on Seneca.
`1927-1930`	Ariel Poems
`1927`	Eliot is confirmed in the Church of England and becomes a naturalized British citizen.
`1930`	"Ash Wednesday"
`1932`	Selected Essays, including most of The Sacred Wood.
`1935`	Poems, 1909-1935; including "Burnt Nortan."
`1940-1942`	Appearance of "East Coker," "The Dry Salvages," and "Little Gidding."
`1943`	"The Four Quartets"
`1947`	Death of T.S. Eliot's first wife, after long illness.
`1948`	King George VI bestowed the Order of Merit on T.S. Eliot. Eliot is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
`1957`	Marriage to Valerie Fletcher.
`1958`	The Elder Statesman
`January 4, 1965`	T.S. Eliot died.