T.S. Eliot (1888-1965). Eliot, a major literary figure of the early 20th century, is best known for his poetry, and, in particular, The Waste Land, which propelled him to stardom. But Eliot was also a critic, and he wrote many essays on Shakespeare, his plays, and the Elizabethan era in general. In 1920, Eliot came out with The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism, which contains a discussion of Hamlet. Although his conclusions about the merit of Shakespeare's play were negative, Eliot's analysis is considered to be an important critical work. In the essay, Eliot used the term "objective correlative", which is now a standard phrase in literary theory. He also published a collection of essays entitled Elizabethan Essays, in 1934, and wrote two poems under the collective title Coriolan, in honor of Shakespeare's play Coriolanus.
