The Guardian of London reported that a council spokesman said: “We absolutely acknowledge theirĬoncerns and we will look at each and every one of the comments that we have received. The South Somerset District Council proposed the housing project in a report on long-term development in the area. In a statement, English Heritage, an organization devoted to preserving historic places, questioned “the validity of this strategy in how it may affect the historic environment.” McCue, many poetry lovers and academics, including Britain’s former Poet Laureate Andrew Motion, are protesting “this planned desecration.” The 15th to 17th centuries before emigrating to the United States.)Īccording to Mr. (His ancestors, the Elyots, lived there in Written in 1940 as the world war raged, “East Coker” recounts Eliot’s memories of the charming farming village and his family’s connection to it. McCue said by e-mail on Monday, is “deeply informed by his sense of place and of history.” Jim McCue, who is editing Eliot’s “Poems” for Faber & Faber with Sir Christopher Ricks, was disturbed to learn of construction plans so near to the spot where Eliot’s ashes are buried. Eliot wrote in “East Coker,” a poem in his famed collection “Four Quartets.” NowĪ proposal to do the first - build a development with 3,750 houses and an industrial estate on the edge of East Coker, in Somerset - has prompted protests from Eliot devotees. Eliots Four Quartets reads: I am here / or there or elsewhere (25). “Houses rise and fall, crumble, are extended,/Are removed, destroyed, restored…” T.S. The penultimate sentence in Movement I of the East Coker section of T.S.
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