A poet, dramatist,
literary critic, and modernist.

Modernism is a term for a number of tendencies in the arts, prominent in the first half of the 20th century. Modernist writers rejected the traditional frame-work of narrative, description, and rational exposition in poetry and prose.
A Stream of consciousness presentation of personality
Poetic image
First period
1911 The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock 《J.阿尔弗雷德·普鲁弗洛克的情歌》 —the first masterpiece of Modernism in English
1917 Prufrock and Other Observations 《普鲁弗洛克及其他》 — First volume of poetry

1922 The Waste Land《荒原》: Eliot’s epochal masterpiece, a representative work of the High Modernism of the 1920s
1925 The Hollow Man《透明人》: the spiritual and emotional aridity of modern men，exhibiting a pessimism

1930 Ash Wednesday《圣灰星期三》
1943 Four Quartets《四个四重奏》 — Noble Prize for literature in 1948
Literary criticism: Selected Essays 1932, The Uses of Poetry 1933, On Poetry and Poets 1957, etc
1935-1958 verse plays: Murder in the Cathedral 《大教堂中的谋杀》