The first thing to note here is the sheer intellectual achievement of these poems. I’ve dragged myself through many dry, boring academic texts that deal with the same themes but Eliot managed to approach metaphysics in text and make it beautiful.
Four Quartets (Faber Poetry)
T.S. EliotFaber and Faber 2001, Paperback, 64 pages, £9.99
There are four longish poems here. [...]