Four Quartets

A memorable concert

The scene is St Stephen’s Church, Gloucester Road in London, where the poet T.S.Eliot was churchwarden for twenty-five years of his life. The young French painter Jeremie Queyras has done a fascinating series of paintings to illustrate Eliot’s Four Quartets. In this picture, you can see the small church at Little Gidding on the left, and a fine portrait of Eliot himself, standing in the London of the Blitz, where he did fire duty, and where, in a deserted street after a night raid, as dawn comes, he encounters the ghost of W.B.Yeats in the second part of Little Gidding.