Four Quartets: A Poem

by T. S. Eliot

Overview

The celebrated, last major verse written by Nobel laureate T. S. Eliot.

Considered by Eliot himself to be his finest work, Four Quartets is a rich composition that expands the spiritual vision introduced in “The Waste Land.” Here, in four linked poems (“Burnt Norton,” “East Coker,” “The Dry Salvages,” and “Little Gidding”), spiritual, philosophical, and personal themes emerge through symbolic allusions and literary and religious references from both Eastern and Western thought. It is the culminating achievement by a man considered the greatest poet of the twentieth century and one of the seminal figures in the evolution of modernism.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780156332255
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	04/18/2023
Series:	Harvest Book Series
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	64
Sales rank:	64,813
Product dimensions:	5.20(w) x 7.80(h) x 0.20(d)
Age Range:	14 - 18 Years

About the Author

THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT was born in St Louis, Missouri, in 1888. He moved to England in 1914 and published his first book of poems in 1917. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Eliot died in 1965.

Table of Contents

	Burnt Norton	13
	East Coker	23
	The Dry Salvages	35
	Little Gidding	49

Editorial Reviews

The poems must be read for the quality of their emotion and its meaning - and I think I am not wrong to say that the Four Quartets (without being in the least Wordsworthian) represent the best poetry of their kind since Wordsworth wrote The Prelude. For those who wish to take heart as against others who are convinced that poetry was among the earliest casualties of the present war, I strongly recommend a reading of Mr. T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets. Books of the Century; New York Times review May, 1943

Horace Gregory