T.S. Eliot was a British, American-born essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic. He attracted widespread attention for his poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (1915), which is seen as a masterpiece of the Modernist movement. It was followed by some of the best-known poems in the English language, including “The Waste Land” (1922) and “Four Quartets” (1945). Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948, “for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry”, he also wrote:
“Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important… They do not mean to do harm… They are absorbed in their endless struggle to think well of themselves”
