Four Quartets by T. S. Eliot - made up of 'Burnt Norton', 'East Coker', 'The Dry Salvages' and 'Little Gidding' - is perhaps the culminating achievement of the Nobel Prize-winning poet's career.
T. S Eliot's enduring masterpiece: Burnt Norton, East Coker, The Dry Salvages and Little Gidding.
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Four Quartets by T. S. Eliot - made up of 'Burnt Norton', 'East Coker', 'The Dry Salvages' and 'Little Gidding' - is perhaps the culminating achievement of the Nobel Prize-winning poet's career.
T. S Eliot's enduring masterpiece: Burnt Norton, East Coker, The Dry Salvages and Little Gidding.
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Four Quartets is the culminating achievement of T.S. Eliot's career as a poet. While containing some of the most musical and unforgettable passages in twentieth-century poetry, its four parts, 'Burnt Norton', 'East Coker', 'The Dry Salvages' and 'Little Gidding', present a rigorous meditation on the spiritual, philosophical and personal themes which preoccupied the author. It was the way in which a private voice was heard to speak for the concerns of an entire generation, in the midst of war and doubt, that confirmed it as an enduring masterpiece.
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Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in St Louis, Missouri in 1888. He was educated at Harvard, at the Sorbonne in Paris, and at Merton College, Oxford. His early poetry was profoundly influenced by the French symbolists, especially Baudelaire and Laforgue. In his academic studies he specialised in philosophy and logic. His doctoral thesis was on F. H. Bradley. He settled in England in 1915, the year in which he married Vivienne Haigh-Wood and also met his contemporary Ezra Pound for the first time. After teaching for a year or so he joined Lloyds Bank in the City of London in 1917, the year in which he published his first volume, Prufrock and Other Observations. In 1919 Poems was hand-printed by Leonard and Virginia Woolf. His first collection of essays, The Sacred Wood, appeared in 1920. His most famous work, The Waste Land, was published in 1922, the same year as James Joyce's Ulysses. The poem was included in the first issue of his jou
T. S Eliot's enduring masterpiece: Burnt Norton , East Coker , The Dry Salvages and Little Gidding . Four Quartets is the culminating achievement of T.S. Eliot's career as a poet. While containing some of the most musical and unforgettable passages in twentieth-century poetry, its four parts, 'Burnt Norton', 'East Coker', 'The Dry Salvages' and 'Little Gidding', present a rigorous meditation on the spiritual, philosophical and personal themes which preoccupied the author. It was the way in which a private voice was heard to speak for the concerns of an entire generation, in the midst of war and doubt, that confirmed it as an enduring masterpiece.
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