"Footfalls echo in the memory": literal travelling and metaphorical journeying in T.S. Eliot’s Four quartets

A wide and thorough survey of Eliot’s poetry, from “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock to _The Waste Land:, from “Ariel Poems” and _Ash-Wednesday_ to _Four Quartets_, in the light of physical movement (walking, journeying, voyaging) and of its projections/repercussions on the poet’s biographical, psychological, philosophical, spiritual, and religious dimensions. The various and different steps of partial journeys all metaphorically merge in a unique journey that is the journey of his life as a man and as a poet.