Four Quartets is the culminating achievement of TS Eliot's career as a poet While containing some of the most musical & unforgettable passages in twentieth-century poetry its four parts ' Burnt Norton' ' East Coker' ' The Dry Salvages' & ' Little Gidding' present a rigorous meditation on the spiritual philosophical & personal themes which preoccupied the author It was the way in which a private voice was heard to speak for the concerns of an entire generation in the midst of war & doubt that confirmed it as an enduring masterpiece