Welcome back to Young Heretics. This is a big one.

You guys have been asking for this for a while, and I cannot wait to deliver.

So we are back now to T.S. Eliot, the great modernist poet of the years between the wars back in the day,

folks that have been with the show for a while.

Remember that we did the most depressing episode of Young Heretics ever on T.S. Eliot,

because his early, well not even early, but just a lot of his modernist stuff is incredibly bleak and sad.

It's about what I sometimes call the lost generation or the generation in between the two world wars.

And back then, when we did actually two episodes on the wasteland,

and I said that one of the things Eliot lets us do is he lets us track a literary conversion,

because he was in the public eye both before and after his conversion to Anglican Christianity.

And one of the ways that we can kind of understand what Christianity meant to him is by studying his work before

and after that conversion.

So now we are back to T.S. Eliot, and after having done two episodes on the wasteland,

we're going to do two episodes now on four quartets, which is kind of his last great work,

and it is known as his Christian work.

Folks have been kind of excited on Twitter to talk about it.

I'm very excited. I think this is a tremendously beautiful and sort of fascinating development

in Eliot's life.

This is a series of four poems that Eliot wrote after he became a Christian.

They are his fullest, I think, and deepest poetic expression of his Christianity.

He published them between the years of 1936 and 1942.

So the Second World War broke out during those years, and Eliot is basically providing to us

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