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A poem by this author describes a “man and woman daunsinge (“DAWN-sing”), signifying matrimonie,” quoting an ancestor’s work, The Boke Named The Governour. Another poem by this author moves from an empty pool in a rose garden to a “place of disaffection,” the London Underground. A personal motto of Mary, Queen of Scots ends a poem by this author titled for a village that now holds his ashes. This author drew on his upbringing in St. Louis in a poem that evokes the Mississippi River (10[1])as a “strong brown god.” A set of poems by this author includes the opening lines, “time present and time past / are both perhaps present in time future” and “in my beginning is my end.” For 10 points, name this poet who included “The Dry Salvages (“sal-VAY-jiz”)” and “Burnt Norton” in the collection Four Quartets. ■END■ (0[4])

ANSWER: T. S. Eliot [or Thomas Stearns Eliot] (The Boke Named the Governour is by Thomas Elyot, a distant ancestor of Eliot.)
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