Thomas Stearns Eliot, OM was a British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic, and "one of the twentieth century's major poets". Wikipedia
Born: September 26, 1888, St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Died: January 4, 1965, Kensington, London, United Kingdom
Spouse: Valerie Eliot (m. 1957–1965), Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot (m. 1915–1947)
We shall not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.
Both of Eliot’s parents wrote poetry in their spare time. Aged ten, Eliot astounded his family by diving into the 17th-century complexities of John Milton. His love of Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories can be glimpsed in the smog-filled lines of his early poetry
Théodore Géricault
Théodore Géricault by Alexandre-Marie Colin, 1816
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| Born | 26 September 1791 Rouen, Normandy, France |
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| Died | 26 January 1824 (aged 32) Paris, France |
| Nationality | French |
| Known for | Painting, Lithography |
| Notable work | The Raft of the Medusa |
| Movement | Romanticism |
Théodore Géricault was born #OnThisDay in 1791. Now identified as a pioneer of Romanticism in French painting, he loved horses and featured dramatic images of rearing horses in his work. ‘A Horse frightened by Lightning’ is probably an early work, and one of a number of paintings of horses made by Géricault at the time. You can find this work on display in Room 45: http://bit.ly/2wCQ05V
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