It may seem superfluous at this point to critically affirm the deeply philosophical qualities of T. S. Eliot's poetry, particularly his Four Quartets. Scholarly tradition has long recognized the philosophical influences of Eliot's academic years on both his personality and his poetry. Likewise, Eliot's intellectual and poetic debts to F. H. Bradley as well as his interest in Eastern philosophy, art and religion are all familiar and well-researched critical subjects. There is, despite such scholarly familiarity with his philosophical underpinnings, the need for a widening of the attention paid to Eliot's Eastern and Western source materials.