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BY JOHN TAMILIO III, PH.D.
Gloucester's land and sea
once inspired poet T. S. Eliot.
When readers ponder the names
and places associated with the liter-
ary heritage of Massachusetts, they
typically conjure the pairs Nathan-
iel Hawthorne and Salem, Emily
Dickinson and Amherst, and Henry
David Thoreau and Concord, among
others. No one says T. S. Eliot and
Eliot on
Eastern Point
photograph by Gretchen Parker (top)
courtesy of the T. S. Eliot Estate (bottom)
Julia Garrison
in-depth
FACES
East Gloucester. Why would they?
The man who many scholars
claim is the greatest English poet
of the 20th century was born and
raised in Saint Louis, Missouri.
He studied at Milton Academy
and then Harvard University, but
moved to England shortly after
T. S. Eliot's
father, Henry
Ware Eliot,
Sr., built the
family summer
home in 1896.