An important book by Benjamin G. Lockerd Jr,
Aethereal Rumours: T.S. Eliot's Physics and Poetics, does for
The Waste Land and the
Four Quartets something of what Michael Ward does for the Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis in
Planet Narnia. In his book, Michael Ward shows that each of the seven tales of Narnia was intended by Lewis to correspond with one of the seven astrological planets – taking these as spiritual symbols of perennial value (as he does in his academic works on Medieval and Renaissance literature, and in the Space Trilogy). Similarly, Lockerd shows that Eliot was always concerned with reconciling poetry with science, and unlike other modern poets "increasingly placed his poetry quite consciously and deliberately within
