With its intricate structure and reverberative imagery, "Four Quartets"
is the culminating achievement of T.S. Eliot's career. Its greatness is
done full justice in this rendition by the Poet Laureate, Ted Hughes.
Containing some of the most melodic passages in modern poetry, "Four
Quartets" blends the religious, the philosophical and the personal
themes that preoccupied Eliot. The four parts, "Burnt Norton, East
Coker, The Dry Salvages" and "Little Gidding," are interconnected both
by theme and by symbol. A poem of war, of Christianity, of literature
and of history, "Four Quartets" speaks for a whole generation and is an
enduring masterpiece.