T.S. Eliot

Thomas Stearns Eliot was an American British poet and playwright from the first half of the Twentieth Century. His writings are said to have influenced many writers and songwriters: James Joyce, Ezra Pound, Virginia Woolf, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Bob Dylan, and others.

He won a Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948, for his literary work, in particular for a set of four poems he wrote called, Four Quartets. They’re basically meditations on the historical, physical, and spiritual nature of time related to humans. Each poem is associated with one of four elements: earth, air, water, and fire.

Note

Although I’ve heard of T.S. Eliot, I don’t think I’ve read anything he wrote. I have heard quotes from a few of his poems: “This is the way the world ends, Not with a bang but a whimper”; “Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough”; “Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions”; and “Humankind cannot bear very much reality”.

As a writer, I should read his works – as least some of the more significant poems. This why I’m writing the text for these web pages – rather than copy someone else’s text or using an artificial intelligence application – to learn more about U.S., U.N. and Italian history, the people involved, and other things. And I do it to be inspired to learn more and to improve my writing skills.

Contains 10 spots: own 10 – 10 unused, 0 used.
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Stamp Details

The table below lists information about the stamps shown on this page of Lighthouse’s stamp album. For more details about a particular stamp, click on its description. That will take you to the related web page of Colnect.

spot	own	catalog	subject	description	comment
1.1	✓	2210	Public Hospitals	22c (apr 1986) definitive, multicolor

Statehood

1.2	✓	2167	Arkansas Statehood	22c (jan 1986) comm., multicolor
2.1	✓	2204	Texas Statehood	22c (mar 1986) comm., dark blue,grey black,dark red

Other

2.2	✓	2202	Love - Puppy	22c (jan 1986) comm., multicolor
2.3	✓	2224	Statue of Liberty Centennial	22c (jul 1986) comm., dark blue & scarlet

Famous Americans

3.1	✓	2203	Sojourner Truth	22c (feb 1986) comm., multicolor
3.2	✓	2239	T.S. Eliot	22c (sep 1986) comm., copper red
3.3	✓	2211	Edward K. Ellington	22c (apr 1986) definitive, multicolor

Christmas & Holidays

4.1	✓	2244	Madonna & Child Perugino	22c (oct 1986) comm., multicolor
4.2	✓	2245	Village Scene	22c (oct 1986) comm., multicolor

Footnotes

Spot refers to the postion of the stamp on the album page (e.g., 3.2 indicates row 3, position 2).
Amt. is an abbreviation for the face amount of the stamp.
Own indicates the stamp status: ✓ for unused; ✗ for used or canceled; ⭑ signifies I ordered one; ; ✨ indicates it was bought recently; ✠ means an auction bid is pending; and ◎ is used, and it costs too much for unused.
To search by catalog number, go to the search box and enter it in the catalog number box. However, it’s a bit broken; I need to fix it.