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Essay / The Authors - 1126
The AuthorsIn the world of writing, the writer's lifestyle, imagination, background, or worldview is what will make the work appealing. The three writers TS Eliot, Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote most of their works based on how they perceived the world or events in their lives. The following paragraphs will tell you about the writers' past to inspire them to write what they did. TS Eliot, a very cerebral poet and also wrote essays. Eliot grew up in a beautiful family, his father was a businessman and his mother was very involved in the community and wrote poetry. Eliot then studied at Harvard where he received his doctorate in philosophy. After attending Harvard, he traveled through Germany on a traveling scholarship and later attended Oxford University where he stayed for only a year. His early works reflect the disillusionment of the post-war generation and the tragedy of contemporary civilization. By 1928, Eliot considered himself an Anglo-Catholic, which reflected a more positive turn in his poetry. Eliot was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1948. Eliot's poetic themes focus on the condition of the world and only gain an optimistic touch later following his conversion to Christianity. His new worldview colors his later works with optimism rather than despair, although he recognizes that the world is still a dark place to live. His poems "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and "Death by the Water" taken from the poem "The Waste Land" are two manifestations of his first social disillusionment while "The Hollow Men" and " The Journey of the Magi” were written later. with the more hopeful backdrop of Christianity.Ernest Miller Hemingway was born in 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois, to an upper-middle-class Orthodox family, as the second of six children. His mother, Mrs. Grace Hale Hemingway, a former opera singer, was an overbearing woman who had reduced her father, Mr. Clarence Edmunds Hemingway, a physician, to the level of a peckish husband. Hemingway had a rather unhappy childhood due to his mother's "intimidating relationship with his father." He grew up under the influence of his father who encouraged him to develop outdoor interests like swimming, fishing and hunting. His early childhood was spent in the northern woods of Michigan among the native Indians, where he learned primitive aspects of life such as fear, pain, danger and death..