Thomas Sterns Eliot was a major figure in the development of the poetry of this movement. He was an expirimenter with language and literary forms, especially the structure of the poem. He juxtaposed images, mythical elements, and quotations from a broad range of literary traditions, leaving the reader withb the responsibility of providing the connections ffrom his or her own consciousness and experience. He comingled the present and past in order to give universal signifigance to both...this illustrates Eliot's obsession with time. Another contribution he made to the creation and criticism of poetry is the "objective correlative", a concept which he introduced in a lecture on "Ulysess" and later developed more fully in an essay on "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare. He gave the term new meaning which has been widely employed in 20th century literary criticism. He spent most of his adult life in Englandeven though his roots were in New England. He had studied at Harvard, as well as Universities of Paris and Oxford.

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