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Five Books Everyone Should Read At Least Once

'Four Quartets' by T.S. Eliot
Four Quartets
by T.S. Eliot

This is the most musical and wisest poetry in the language of our time and place. (Short of that, The Complete Poems 1927–1979, by Elizabeth Bishop.)