An early precocious work includes references to Donne and Hamlet, as well as an epigraph from Dante, while later poems like ―Journey of the Magi‖ and ―Ash Wednesday‖ reflect a turn towards religion.
As a theorist, his concept of the ―objective correlative‖ influenced New Criticism; as a playwright, his works include The Burial of the Dead  and Murder in the Cathedral; but he is best known as a poet. An early precocious work includes references to Donne and Hamlet, as well as an epigraph from Dante, while later poems like ―Journey of the Magi‖ and ―Ash Wednesday‖ reflect a turn towards religion. His most famous reference however, was to The Canterbury Tales, in the famous opening line ―April is the cruelest month‖. FTP name this Nobel Prize-winning poet of ―The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock‖ and ―The Waste-Land‖.
As a theorist, his concept of the ―objective correlative‖ influenced New Criticism; as a playwright, his works include The Burial of the Dead  and Murder in the Cathedral; but he is best known as a poet.
Thomas Stearns {Eliot}