Book description
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.
Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in St Louis, Missouri, in 1888. He came
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.
