NMLP P-030429 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

East Coker

T.S. Eliot · Faber & Faber (London) · 1940

The poem's first appearance was in the New English Weekly supplement (March 1940). The Faber pamphlet (September 1940) is the first separate edition and precedes inclusion in Four Quartets (US 1943; UK 1944).

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-030429 for "East Coker" by T.S. Eliot (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-030429, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).