T.S. Eliot The Hollow Men (1888-1965)

Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Harvard educated, studied philosophy at the Sorbonne (France) and Oxford, converted to Anglicanism and became an English citizen in 1927.

This biography suggests a man turning his back on "modern" America, or modern vs. traditional Western values in general, and although the poetry itself typifies "modern poetry", like Conrad, Eliot's work can be viewed as a purely Modern critique and rejection of his era's "Modern" values. Yes, Modernism is often a critique of Modernism, or at least of the modern world's consumerism emphasis on the individual, the common vs. the heroic, the new vs. traditional and the daily vs. transcendent.

Eliot's work is also notorious for its symbolism, most of which refers back to -- and seems to yearn for -- classical Greek and Christian imagery and motifs seemingly "left behind" in our modern march toward the future and "progress".  The Waste Land is famous for their footnotes to these symbols counting more pages than the poem itself.

In this way, like Conrad, while a critique of modern Western culture, Eliot's work pushes toward the conservative world view: he wants to go back to a more ideal past, and his symbolism forces his reader to examine these "lost" great works.