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Four Quartets is a set of four poems written by T. S. Eliot that were published individually over a six-year period. The first poem, Burnt Norton , was written and published with a collection of his early works following the production of Eliot's play Murder in the Cathedral . After a few years, Eliot composed the other three poems, East Coker , The Dry Salvages , and Little Gidding , which were written during World War II and the air-raids on Great Britain . The poems were not collected until Eliot's New Y
Four Quartets are four interlinked meditations with the common theme being man's relationship with time, the universe, and the divine. In describing his understanding of the divine within the poems, Eliot blends his Anglo-Catholicism with mystical, philosophical and poetic works from both Eastern and Western religious and cultural traditions, with references to the Bhagavad-Gita and the Pre-Socratics as well as St. John of the Cross and Julian of Norwich .
Alec Guinness reads Four Quartets by TS Eliot. This classic 1971 recording, unavailable for many years, can be downloaded at https://soundcloud.com/tomrobinson/4quartets The full text of all four poems is available at http://www.coldbacon.com/poems/fq.html ...The Waste Land - also read by Guinness for the BBC (possibly in 1958?) - can be heard here https://youtu.be/Hcj4G45F9pw