![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Having said that, although Four Quartets might represent something of a high watermark for pretentious poetry, it’s still bloody marvellous. If that’s not pretentious enough for you, then let me add that Four Quartets opens with two quotations from Heraclitus, the Ancient Greek philosopher. His Four Quartets are a collection of four poems, written between 19, in which he tries to figure out humankind’s relationship to time and the universe. I originally intended to connect, by way of pilgrimage, the locations that inspired each of TS Eliot’s Four Quartets.įor those of you who have no idea what I’m talking about: TS Eliot was a poet. This week’s tramping of the Catswold Way was originally conceived as the most pretentious of walks. His name was Furniss and he can be snuggled with at the foot of the hill leading up to Belas Knapp Longbarrow. An alternative trail demands an alternative name: I’m going with the Catswold Way. It was sort of a pandemic-friendly hiking of the Cotswold Way national trail, skirting the Tier 3 troubles of South Gloucestershire. Four days, and 131,000 metres of claggy stomping later, I arrived at Bath Abbey. Shouldering a much-too-heavy backpack, I finally set foot in the Cotswolds on Monday afternoon. ![]()
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