TS Eliot and the search for perfection (Lyndall Gordon) by Royal Society Literature published on 2011-12-16T16:39:01Z In this talk, she asks how Eliot tested a variety of lives in his masterpiece, Four Quartets. How do writers, or risk-takers like his ancestor Andrew Eliot, or Londoners during the Blitz, or members of a religious community, hold up against Eliot's pattern of the perfect life: 'a lifetime burning in every moment'? Genre Lecture