Four Quartets.

ELIOT, T.S.

Item Number: 133432

London: The Folio Society, 1968.

First Folio Society edition of Eliot’s self-regarded masterpiece. Octavo, original full buckram, printed paper labels to the spine, front panel, and rear pastedown. In near fine condition. Ownership name.

The work that Eliot considered his masterpiece and the work that most of all led him to being awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, Four Quartets “brings together the intricacies of modern technique and imagery and the simplicities of traditional lyric measures. In the austere asceticism and confident dogmatism of these poems there is an impressive restatement of Christian belief in terms of contemporary poetic idiom and contemporary speculations about time” (Baugh et al., 1587).