T.S. Eliot Vol. 1 : Man and Poet (1990) T. S. Eliot: Man and Poet is the 11th book in the National Poetry Foundation’s Man/Woman and Poet Series and the fourth commemorative centennial work. Its tone is—appropriately—celebratory. More than one hundred years after his birth (and twenty-five years after his death), Thomas Steams Eliot remains arguably