Burnt Norton

"Burnt Norton" (1935) is a poem by Nobel Prize-winning poet T. S. Eliot. It is the first of four related poems collectively called the "Four Quartets", which Eliot considers his masterpiece.The poem is named after a manor in Gloucestershire in Southwest English that Eliot visited in 1934. Its rose garden is referenced in this poem's opening section. more

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T. S. Eliot

Thomas Stearns Eliot (September 26, 1888–January 4, 1965) was a poet, playwright, and literary critic, and arguably the most important English-language poet of the 20th century. Although he was born an American he moved to the United Kingdom in 1914 (at age 25) and was naturalised as a British...

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