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English
Etymology
From Eliot + -ian.
Adjective
Eliotian (comparative more Eliotian, superlative most Eliotian)
- Of or pertaining to Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888–1965), American-born poet, playwright, and literary critic.
1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 521:The poem was called Lines for Early Middle Age, and it was signed Fenella Crabbe, but it was impossible that Fenella — twenty-eight or twenty-nine — should think of herself as middle-aged, or even, being a woman and a good-looking woman although a poet, have a proleptic Eliotian image of an aged eagle with tired wings demanding to be released from the dressing-mirror.