When Eliot was writing The Dry Salvages the question of American assistance for Britain's war effort was being discussod .
In the fourth of five talks about Eliot's four Quartets, the poet,
Peter Robinson traces the writer's attempt to protect his poem from topical allusion while bringing about the ' intersection of the timeless with time '. With a reading of the poem by JOHN FRANKLYN -ROBBINS.
Producer THOMAS SUTCLIFFE