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==Influence== Eliot influenced many poets, novelists, and songwriters, including [[Seán Ó Ríordáin]], [[Máirtín Ó Díreáin]], [[Virginia Woolf]], [[Ezra Pound]], [[Bob Dylan]], [[Hart Crane]], [[William Gaddis]], [[Allen Tate]], [[Andrew Lloyd Webber]], [[Trevor Nunn]], [[Ted Hughes]], [[Geoffrey Hill]], [[Seamus Heaney]], [[F. Scott Fitzgerald]], [[Russell Kirk]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.beingpoet.com/t-s-eliot/|title=www.beingpoet.com|access-date=1 December 2016|archive-date=3 February 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140203184238/http://www.beingpoet.com/t-s-eliot/|url-status=dead}}</ref> [[George Seferis]] (who in 1936 published a modern Greek translation of ''The Waste Land'') and [[James Joyce]].{{Dubious|Influenced|date=March 2014}}<ref>{{cite news|first=Nancy Caldwell |last=Sorel|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/first-encounters--when-james-joyce-met-ts-eliot-1582565.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220526/https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/first-encounters--when-james-joyce-met-ts-eliot-1582565.html |archive-date=26 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=FIRST ENCOUNTERS : When James Joyce met TS Eliot|date=18 November 1995|newspaper=[[The Independent]]|access-date=1 December 2016}}</ref> T. S. Eliot was a strong influence on 20th-century [[Caribbean poetry]] written in English, including the [[epic poetry|epic]] ''[[Omeros]]'' (1990) by Nobel laureate [[Derek Walcott]],<ref>{{Cite web|last=Washington|first=K. C.|date=2020-01-06|title=Derek Walcott (1930–2017)|url=https://www.blackpast.org/global-african-history/derek-walcott-1930-2017/|access-date=2020-11-07|language=en-US|quote=Heavily influenced by the modernist poets T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound, Walcott became internationally prominent with the collection In a Green Night: Poems 1948–1960 (1962).}}</ref> and ''Islands'' (1969) by Barbadian [[Kamau Brathwaite]].<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Brathwaite|first=Kamau|date=1993|title=Roots|magazine=History of the Voice|location=Ann Arbor, Michigan|publisher=[[University of Michigan Press]]|page=286}}</ref>
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