About “Burnt Norton”
Burnt Norton is the first poem in T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets. It was written while Eliot was working on his play Murder in the Cathedral and first published in Collected Poems 1909–1935 in 1936. The poem's title refers to a manor house Eliot visited with Emily Hale in the Cotswolds. The manor's garden is a key image in the poem. Structurally, Burnt Norton draws from Eliot's earlier work The Waste Land, and some passages relate to material removed from Murder in the Cathedral. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)
Book details
- First published
- 1936