"""Four Quartets"", a set of four poems (""Burnt Norton"", ""East Coker"", ""The Dry Salvages"" and ""Little Gidding"") published between 1936 and 1942, were written by whom?"
Four Quartets Four Quartets Four Quartets is a set of four poems written by T. S. Eliot that were published over a six-year period. The first poem, "Burnt Norton", was published with a collection of his early works (1936's "Collected Poems 1909–1935".) After a few years, Eliot composed the other three poems, "East Coker", "The Dry Salvages", and "Little Gidding", which were written during World War II and the air-raids on Great Britain. They were first published as a series by Faber and Faber in Great Britain between 1940 and 1942 towards the end of Eliot's poetic career ("East Coker" in September
Four Quartets 1940, "Burnt Norton" in February 1941, "The Dry Salvages" in September 1941 and "Little Gidding" in 1942.) The poems were not collected until Eliot's New York publisher printed them together in 1943. "Four Quartets" are four interlinked meditations with the common theme being man's relationship with time, the universe, and the divine. In describing his understanding of the divine within the poems, Eliot blends his Anglo-Catholicism with mystical, philosophical and poetic works from both Eastern and Western religious and cultural traditions, with references to the "Bhagavad-Gita" and the Pre-Socratics as well as St. John of the Cross and Julian of