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The Hollow Men was written in 1925
Eliot said the name was a mixture of "The Broken Men" of Rudyard Kipling with "The Hollow Land" of William Morris.
There are strong references to Guy Fawkes, particularly the ending.
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The portrait of T.S. Eliot was by Wyndham Lewis in 1938
The picture is of a Japanese scarecrow, reworked in Paint Shop Pro. Here's the original picture:
tinyurl.com/y9hwp2h