Editing T. S. Eliot (section)

===Death and honours===

[[File:T S Eliot 3 Kensington Court Gardens blue plaque.jpg|thumb|Blue plaque, 3 Kensington Court Gardens, Kensington, London, home from 1957 until his death in 1965]]
Eliot died of [[emphysema]] at his home in [[Kensington]] in London, on 4 January 1965,<ref>{{cite book|last1=Grantq|first1=Michael|title=T.S. Eliot: The Critical Heritage, Volume 1|date=1997|publisher=Psychology Press|isbn=9780415159470|page=55}}</ref> and was cremated at [[Golders Green Crematorium]].<ref>{{cite news|last1=McSmith|first1=Andy|title=Famous names whose final stop was Golders Green crematorium|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/famous-names-whose-final-stop-was-golders-green-crematorium-1921813.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220526/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/famous-names-whose-final-stop-was-golders-green-crematorium-1921813.html |archive-date=26 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|access-date=3 January 2018|newspaper=The Independent|date=16 March 2010}}</ref> In accordance with his wishes, his ashes were taken to [[St Michael and All Angels' Church, East Coker]], the village in Somerset from which his Eliot ancestors had emigrated to America.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.premier.org.uk/Topics/Culture/Literature/National-Poetry-Day-on-Premier-2013|title=National Poetry Day on Premier 2013 – Premier|last=Premier|year=2014|work=Premier|access-date=27 February 2018}}</ref> A wall plaque in the church commemorates him with a quotation from his poem ''East Coker'': "In my beginning is my end. In my end is my beginning."<ref>{{cite news|last1=Jenkins|first1=Simon|title=East Coker does not deserve the taint of TS Eliot's narcissistic gloom|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2007/apr/06/comment.poetry|access-date=3 January 2018|newspaper=The Guardian|date=6 April 2007}}</ref>

In 1967, on the second anniversary of his death, Eliot was commemorated by the placement of a large stone in the floor of [[Poets' Corner]] in London's [[Westminster Abbey]]. The stone, cut by designer [[Reynolds Stone]], is inscribed with his life dates, his [[Order of Merit]], and a quotation from his poem ''[[Little Gidding (poem)|Little Gidding]]'', "the communication / of the dead is tongued with fire beyond / the language of the living."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.westminster-abbey.org/our-history/people/thomas-stearns-eliot|title=Thomas Stearns Eliot|publisher=westminster-abbey.org|access-date=1 December 2016}}</ref>

In 1986, a [[blue plaque]] was placed on the apartment block - No. 3 [[Kensington Court Gardens]] - where he lived and died.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://openplaques.org/plaques/500|title=T. S. Eliot Blue Plaque|publisher=openplaques.org|access-date=23 November 2013}}</ref>