High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "The Dry Salvages" is the third poem of T. S. Eliot`s Four Quartets and marks the beginning of when the series was consciously being formed as a set of four poems. It was written and published in 1941 during the air-raids on Great Britain, an event that threatened him while giving lectures in the area. The title comes from the name of a rock formation near a town he spent time at as a child, which reflects Eliot`s references to his own past throughout the poem.