James Kirkup, Eliot, ‘Poetry London': February-March 1943, vol. ix, 52–5

‘East Coker’ was a natural sequel to ‘Burnt Norton,’ and ‘The Dry Salvages’ seemed to indicate a culmination in the poet’s thought. The final poem of the series is a re-examination of what has been said already in the three previous poems, though the implications of ‘East Coker’ seem, in ‘Little Gidding,’ to predominate.