Henry Reed (poet) satire of T. S. Eliot's "Burnt Norton". Eliot himself was amused by "Chard Whitlow"'s mournful imitations of his poetic style ("As we get older we do not get any younger ..."). Reed made a radio programme, reading all of "Lessons of the War", which was broadcast on the BBC's Network Three on 14 February 1966. He was often confused with the poet and critic Herbert Read (1893 – 1968); the two men were unrelated. Reed responded to this confusion by naming his 'alter ego' biographer in the "Hilda Tablet" plays "Herbert Reeve" and then by having everyone get the name
T. S. Eliot has had a blue plaque on it since 1986. For a poet of his stature, Eliot produced a relatively small number of poems. He was aware of this even early in his career. He wrote to J.H. Woods, one of his former Harvard professors, "My reputation in London is built upon one small volume of verse, and is kept up by printing two or three more poems in a year. The only thing that matters is that these should be perfect in their kind, so that each should be an event." Typically, Eliot first published his poems individually in periodicals