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Listed status for poet’s shelter
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A seaside shelter in which the poet TS Eliot composed one of his most famous works has been given listed status.
The Nayland Rock shelter on Margate seafront, Kent, is where he regularly sat while staying in the town in 1921 to recuperate from a nervous breakdown.
In a letter that year, the US-born poet said he had written a rough draft of part III of The Waste Land “while sitting in a shelter on the front”.
English Heritage said the shelter had been listed as Grade II.
Thomas Stearns Eliot, OM (26 September 1888–4 January 1965), was a poet, playwright, and literary critic. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Among his most famous writings are The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, The Waste Land, “The Hollow Men“, Ash Wednesday, Four Quartets, Murder in the Cathedral, The Cocktail Party and “Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats“.
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