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 religious sensibility." After this, he worked on more "commercial" plays for more general audiences: "The Family Reunion" (1939), "The Cocktail Party" (1949), "The Confidential Clerk", (1953) and "The Elder Statesman" (1958) (the latter three were produced by Henry Sherek and directed by E. Martin Browne). The Broadway production in New York of "The Cocktail Party" received the 1950 Tony Award for Best Play. Eliot wrote "The Cocktail Party" while he was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study. Regarding his method of playwriting, Eliot explained, "If I set out to write a play, I start by an act