High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "Burnt Norton" is the first poem of T. S. Eliot`s Four Quartets. He created it while working on his play Murder in the Cathedral and it was first published in his Collected Poems 1909–1935 (1936). The poem`s title refers to a Cotswolds manor house Eliot visited. The manor`s garden served as an important image within the poem. Structurally, the poem is based on Eliot`s The Waste Land with passages of the poem related to those excised from Murder in the Cathedral.