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Four Quartets

In Our Time: Culture

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The Waste Land

In the 19 thirties Elliot no longer considered himself to be principally a poet. He had taken into writing plays, and some of them were successful. But there was material left over from murder in the cathedral that he saw as possible germ of a poem. And that's how he came to write burnt norton.

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