David Morley (poet) of the 2012 T.S. Eliot Prize and of the 2013 Foyle Young Poets Prize. He was Head of the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at Warwick University and is now Professor. He also holds the Alliance Chair of Writing at Monash University, Melbourne. David Morley (poet) David Morley FRSL (born 16 March 1964) is an English poet, critic, anthologist, editor and ecologist. His best-selling textbook "The Cambridge Introduction to Creative Writing" has been translated into many languages. His major poetry collections "Scientific Papers", "The Invisible Kings", "Enchantment" and "The Gypsy and the Poet" are published by Carcanet Press.
T. S. Eliot poems and he became lifelong friends with Conrad Aiken, the American writer and critic. After working as a philosophy assistant at Harvard from 1909 to 1910, Eliot moved to Paris where, from 1910 to 1911, he studied philosophy at the Sorbonne. He attended lectures by Henri Bergson and read poetry with Henri Alban-Fournier. From 1911 to 1914, he was back at Harvard studying Indian philosophy and Sanskrit. Eliot was awarded a scholarship to Merton College, Oxford, in 1914. He first visited Marburg, Germany, where he planned to take a summer programme, but when the First World War broke out he