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Poet, essayist, publisher, playwright, literary critic, and editor Thomas Stearns Eliot OM He is a significant character in English-language Modernist poetry and is considered one of the twentieth century's important poets. Eliot died of emphysema on January 4, 1965, at his home in Kensington, London, and was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium. His ashes were scattered in St Michael and All Angels' Church in East Coker, Somerset, the village from where his Eliot ancestors had emigrated to America, as per his wishes.
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