Four Quartets

E20947

Four Quartets is a sequence of four interlinked poems by T. S. Eliot that meditates on time, spirituality, and human experience, and is considered one of his greatest poetic achievements.

All labels observed (5)

Label Occurrences
Four Quartets canonical 19
The Dry Salvages 4
The Dry Salvages (poem) 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf long poem
modernist poem
poetry collection
author T. S. Eliot
completionYear 1942
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
criticalReputation considered a masterpiece of 20th-century English poetry
considered one of T. S. Eliot's greatest works
firstPartPublicationYear 1936
form sequence of four poems
genre modernist poetry
philosophical poetry
religious poetry
hasAdaptation audio recordings by T. S. Eliot
radio broadcasts
stage readings
hasPart Burnt Norton
East Coker
Little Gidding
The Dry Salvages
linked to: Four Quartets
influencedBy Christian mysticism
Dante Alighieri
Heraclitus
Hindu philosophy
language English
literaryMovement Modernism
mainTheme Christian theology
eternity
history
human experience
memory
redemption
spirituality
suffering
time
meter mixed verse and prose-like rhythms
notableLine All shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well.
In my beginning is my end.
In my end is my beginning.
The still point of the turning world.
numberOfParts 4
publicationPeriod 1936–1942
publisher Faber and Faber
references Julian of Norwich
religiousTradition Anglo-Catholicism
setting Burnt Norton, Gloucestershire, England
East Coker, Somerset, England
linked to: East Coker

Little Gidding, Cambridgeshire, England
The Dry Salvages, Massachusetts, United States

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (27)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

T. S. Eliot notableWork Four Quartets
Four Quartets hasPart The Dry Salvages
linked to: Four Quartets
Ash-Wednesday relatedWork Four Quartets
St Michael and All Angels' Church, East Coker associatedWith poem "East Coker"
linked to: Four Quartets
Stearns bearerNotableFor Four Quartets
Burnt Norton partOf Four Quartets
Burnt Norton laterPublication Four Quartets
Burnt Norton relatedWork The Dry Salvages
linked to: Four Quartets
East Coker partOf Four Quartets
East Coker laterPublicationIn collected volume Four Quartets
linked to: Four Quartets
East Coker relatedWork The Dry Salvages
linked to: Four Quartets
Little Gidding partOf Four Quartets
Little Gidding seriesCompanionWork The Dry Salvages
linked to: Four Quartets
The Dry Salvages mentionedIn Four Quartets
The Dry Salvages mentionedIn The Dry Salvages (poem)
linked to: Four Quartets
The Dry Salvages inspiredWork The Dry Salvages (poem)
linked to: Four Quartets
In my end is my beginning appearsInWork Four Quartets
subject linked to: In my end is my beginning.
In my end is my beginning recursIn Four Quartets
subject linked to: In my end is my beginning.
The still point of the turning world appearsInWork Four Quartets
All shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well echoedIn Four Quartets
Celia Coplestone relatedWork Four Quartets