The Waste LandPrufrock and Other PoemsPoemsThe Waste LandAbout the Series T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) was one of the fathers of modernism and a defining voice in English-language poetry. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948. Michael North is a Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of The Dialect of Modernism: Race, Language, and Twentieth-Century Literature , The Final Sculpture: Public Monuments and Modern Poets , Reading 1922: A Return to the Scene of the Modern , The Political Aesthetic of Yeats, Eliot, and Pound , and Henry Green and the Writing of His Generation , as well as many articles on various aspects of twentieth-century literature.