![]() ![]() ![]() He spent the 1905-1906 academic year at Milton Academy, a private prep school in Massachusetts, and then entered Harvard University, beginning his studies on September 26, 1906, his eighteenth birthday. His first poems and prose pieces appeared in the Smith Academy Record in 1905, the year of his graduation. Louis, where he became a Unitarian minister, but the New England connection was closely maintained-especially, during Eliot's youth, through the family's summer home on the Atlantic coastEliot attended Miss Locke's Primary School and Smith Academy in St. William Greenleaf Eliot, the poet's paternal grandfather, had, after his graduation from Harvard in the 1830s, moved to St. Both parents were descended from families that had emigrated from England to Massachusetts in the seventeenth century. Louis, Missouri, the seventh and last child of Henry Ware Eliot, a brick manufacturer, and Charlotte (Stearns) Eliot, who was active in social reform and was herself a not-untalented poet. Thomas Stearns Eliot was born on September 26, 1888, in St. ![]()
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