Dhaka, Oct. 2 -- Thomas Stearns Eliot, a man of two continents, playwright, editor, literary critic, bank employee, and a great leader of the Modernist movement in poetry, was born on September 26, 1888, in St. Louis, Missouri, US. He practiced a wide influence on Anglo-American culture and his name, along with the most important 20th-century writers such as Virginia Woolf and James Joyce, has come to define British modernist fiction.

Modernist movement is "a rejection of traditional 19th-century norms, whereby artists, architects, poets, and thinkers either altered or abandoned earlier conventions in an attempt to re-envision a society in flux".

Eliot's essays not only in style, diction, and versemaking resurrected English poetry but a...