T.S. Eliot was an American-British poet, playwright, and literary critic born in 1888 who died in 1965. He is considered one of the major 20th century poets and is best known for his poems "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and "The Waste Land." Eliot proposed a theory of "depersonalization" in art, where the emotions and experiences expressed in a work of art are different from those of the artist. According to Eliot, it is not the intensity of the emotions themselves that make great poetry, but rather the intensity of the artistic process and fusion that takes place under creative pressure.