Identify this poet who wrote "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", "The Hollow Men", and "The Waste Land".
In one work by this writer, he finds "strength beyond hope and despair" while "climbing the third stair" after a be- ginning in which he does "not hope to turn again." In addition to "Ash Wednesday", another work by this poet states that "it is impossible to say" just what he means and that the mermaids will not sing to him, but that "there will be time to murder and create." He also repeats the line, "In the room the women come and go talking of Michelangelo." This poet also wrote a poem that ends with references to the Upanishads, with the line "Shantih shantih shantih" end- ing the section titled "What the Thunder Said", and he also wrote a group of poems with the titles "East Coker", "Dry Salvages", "Little Gidding", and "Burnt Norton". Identify this poet who wrote "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", "The Hollow Men", and "The Waste Land".
In one work by this writer, he finds "strength beyond hope and despair" while "climbing the third stair" after a be- ginning in which he does "not hope to turn again."
Thomas Stearns {Eliot}