Only Connect - T.S. Eliot <> Ludwig van Beethoven
How are these sitters connected?
T.S. Eliot
by Patrick Heron
1949
NPG 4467
Ludwig van Beethoven
by Lazarus Gottlieb Sichling, after Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller
(1823)
NPG D13759
The connection
T. S. Eliot based his most musical of poems, the ‘Four Quartets’, on Beethoven’s ground-breaking late quartets.
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