"The Sacred Wood" was the first book of criticism by this Missouri-born "Four Quartets" poet
.... Four Quartets (1943), as the suite of four poems was 
entitled, for a period... [DOC] [TLE] T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) - CliffsNotes [PAR] About the Poet Thomas Stearns Eliot, an American-born scholar, ... and poet and 
biographer Charlotte Stearns, Tom Eliot was born in St. Louis, Missouri, ... 
Observations (1917), followed by Ara vos prec (1920) and The Sacred Wood (
1922).