News at Eleven: [T.S. Eliot] returned in 1933 to

lecture on William Shakespeare at Washington University. Because Eliot was a famous poet and critic, local reporters jotted down his every public utterance. Eliot said he was surprised by growth west of Forest Park, but otherwise recognized his home town.

"It is bigger and all that sort of thing, but it is still the St. Louis I knew," Eliot said in his developed British accent.

He said he never moved back from London "because I had a job there, so I stayed."

from St. Louis Dispatch: A Look Back: Poet T.S. Eliot visits his home town in 1933

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