Four Quartets: A Poem

Four Quartets: A Poem

<P><B>The last major verse written by Nobel laureate T. S. Eliot, considered by Eliot himself to be his finest work</B></P><P>&#160;</P><P><I>Four Quartets</I> is a rich composition that expands the spiritual vision introduced in &#8220;The Waste Land.&#8221; Here, in four linked poems (&#8220;Burnt Norton,&#8221; &#8220;East Coker,&#8221; &#8220;The Dry Salvages,&#8221; and &#8220;Little Gidding&#8221;), 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.