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T.S. stands for Thomas Stearns. (Note: The description 'famous for his sensuousness' in the question text is more often applied to Keats, but the question asks for the name expansion of Eliot).
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'The Waste Land' is a long poem by T.S. Eliot, published in 1922, and is regarded as one of the most important poems of the 20th century.
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T.S. Eliot wrote 'The Waste Land', a landmark poem of the modernist era.
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T.S. Eliot was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948 'for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry', including 'The Waste Land'.
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'Murder in the Cathedral' is a verse drama by T.S. Eliot, first performed in 1935, portraying the assassination of Archbishop Thomas Becket.
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T.S. Eliot popularized the term 'objective correlative' in his essay 'Hamlet and His Problems' to refer to a set of objects, a situation, or a chain of events which shall be the formula of that particular emotion.
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'Of Human Bondage' is a 1915 novel by W. Somerset Maugham, generally agreed to be his masterpiece and strongly autobiographical.
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The correct English spelling of the author's name is Somerset Maugham.
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'The Luncheon' is a famous short story by William Somerset Maugham about a lunch date where the guest eats expensively while the host suffers.
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Sir Winston Churchill, the British Prime Minister (statesman), was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953 for his historical and biographical descriptions and oratory.