![]() ![]() The fourth section of Four Quartets, “Little Gidding” was published in 1942. He also makes allusions to both Milton and Dante. ![]() Like in Eliot’s early works, the poem connects to numerous earlier writings - such as, in this case, to the early Greek philosopher Heraclitus, the scriptural account of Pentecost, a Hindu text, and the Christian mystics John of The Cross and Julian of Norwich. They deal with the connection of time and eternity - of Chronos (linear time) and Kairos (“the timeless moment”). Perhaps Eliot’s greatest accomplishment is Four Quartets - four related, but separate poems published over a six-year period. He is such a significant figure that both nations claim him as their own. Louis in 1888, but moved to London - becoming a British citizen in 1927. ![]() Eliot is the only poet to be both featured in my copy of The Norton Anthology of English Literature, and its American counterpart. ![]()
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