'Little Gidding' was not only the completion of the Four
Quartets but also T. S. Eliot 's final great enterprise as a poet. In the last of five talks, Professor Christopher Ricks , of Christ's College, Cambridge, argues that in his valediction Eliot transformed his early talents for aggression and attack into virtues of gentleness and forgiveness.
With a reading of the poem by John Franklyn-Robbins .