![]() Such is the achievement of the poem in question, nonetheless, that the modernist literary canon would have had to have found a place for it even if Eliot had been a relative unknown at the time. It was a singular publishing event, for t he Four Quartets came to be regarded almost from the first as one of the great literary masterpieces of a very rich literary century.īy then Eliot’s worldwide reputation as a poet was substantial enough to warrant such critical accolades, of course. A relatively slim volume of poetry, it nevertheless brought together between its covers a single, coherent poetic work that would prove to be the final fruits of a lifetime of creative endeavor on Eliot’s part as a poet. At the end of October 1943, in the midst of the terrible violence, destruction, and slaughter of World War II, Faber & Faber, Eliot’s publisher since the mid-1920s, released Four Quartets. ![]()
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