Essential Poetry – T.S. Eliot

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We shall not cease from exploration

And the end of all our exploring

Will be to arrive where we started

And know the place for the first time.’

– ‘Little Gidding’, Four Quartets

Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888–1965) left an indelible mark on the literary and cultural landscape of the twentieth century. Essayist, poet and playwright, he won the 1948 Nobel Prize in Literature for ‘his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry’. This selection of his essential poems celebrates and honours the literary inheritance from Eliot’s oeuvre.