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T.S. Eliot
T.S. Eliot working on his play The Cocktail Party in his office at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University, 1948. The letters of the alphabet in his diagram represent characters in the play. The Greek letters represent characters yet to be invented.
Four Quartets, considered the masterpiece of T.S. Eliot, was published in book form in 1943.12
Prior to this collection, the four individual poems were published separately between 1936 and 1942:
* "Burnt Norton" (1936)12
* "East Coker" (1940)12
* "The Dry Salvages" (1941)12
* "Little Gidding" (1942)12