Talk:Little Gidding (poem)

Little Gidding (poem) has been listed as one of the Language and literature good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.

Little Gidding (poem) is part of the Four Quartets series, a good topic. This is identified as among the best series of articles produced by the Wikipedia community. If you can update or improve it, please do so.

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Date	Process	Result
September 7, 2009	Good article nominee	Listed
September 28, 2009	Good topic candidate	Promoted

A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on April 29, 2009.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that T. S. Eliot's Paradiso-like poems of the Four Quartets (Burnt Norton, East Coker, The Dry Salvages, and Little Gidding) are modeled on the structure of his Inferno-like poem The Waste Land?

Current status: Good article

Little Gidding community

The current version refers to the Anglican community being "scattered during the English Civil War".

This (while frequently reported over many years) does not seem to be true.

During a period of local unrest in the Civil Wars, John Ferrar and some of his family went to Holland, but they had returned by 1646. There have been successive allegations of ransacking of the church and the estate during this period. Latest research shows that this did not happen.

See the article entitled "Alleged Ransacking - an update" Ned de Rotelande 15:25, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

There are government records of the Puritans scattering the community, and multiple high quality historical references document this. Even Eliot in his writing discusses it. Ottava Rima (talk) 15:34, 16 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

"Poem of fire"

is this an actual literary genre? If so, could we have a link? 142.163.195.22 (talk) 01:51, 3 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]