Little Gidding was not only the completion of the Four Quartets but Eliot's final great enterprise as a poet.
In the last of five talks on Eliot's Four Quartets,
Professor Christopher Ricks , of Christ's College, Cambridge, argues that InhisvaledictionEliot transformed his early talents for aggression and attack into virtues of gentleness and forgiving. With a reading of the poem by JOHN FRANKLYN-ROBBINS .
Producer THOMAS SUTCLIFFE