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In 1910-11, T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) went to Paris to study literature, particularly poetry. Worrying about the future course of his life, he studied philosophy intensively at home and abroad under the... influence of the British idealist philosopher F. H. Bradley (1846-1924). He studied at Harvard from 1911-14, Marburg, Germany in 1914, and at Merton College, Oxford, in 1914-15. Eliot was brought up to respect his grandfather, William Greenleaf Eliot (1811-87), who was a Unitarian minister, educator, and civil leader, as a great man, although he died before Eliot was born. Eliot's grandfather is closely associated with Bradley's Absolute, Perfect Reality, which was the central concept of his philosophy. In 1915, Eliot was actively encouraged by the American poet and critic Ezra Pound (1885-1972) in London to publish some poems, and he also married an English girl, Vivienne Haigh-Wood (1888-1947), on June 26 that same year. 1915 was an important year in Eliot's life in England, when he really started his career as a poet while thinking about philosophy without Bradley's Absolute. This suggests that Eliot made an earnest attempt to rid himself of the invisible oppression of his grandfather.show more
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