Which poet authored the poem that begins with the line "April is the cruelest month"?

This is the first line of T. S. Eliot's poem "The Waste Land". Many people consider this poem, published in 1922, to be the greatest and single most influential poetic work of the 20th century. Noted literary experts and critics have held that with the publication of "The Waste Land", Eliot’s reputation began to grow to nearly mythic proportions; by 1930, and for the next thirty years, he was the most dominant figure in poetry who received the greatest literary criticism in the English-speaking world.

As a poet, it was stated that Eliot transmuted his affinity for the English metaphysical poets of the seventeenth century (most notably John Donne) and the nineteenth century French symbolist poets (including Baudelaire and Laforgue) into radical innovations in poetic technique and subject matter.

Thomas Stearns Eliot (T. S. Eliot) was born in September 1888, and he died in London in January 1965. One of his greatest honors was to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948.