As civilian war poetry (written under the shattering impact of World War II). Trilogy's three long poems rank with T.S. Eliot's and "Four Quartets and " and Ezra Pound's and "Pisan Cantos. and " The first book of the Trilogy, and "The Walls Do Not Fall, and " published in the midst of the and "fifty thousand incidents and " of the London blitz, maintains the hope that though and "we have no map; possibly we will reach haven, heaven. and " and "Tribute to Angels and " describes new life springing from the ruins, and finally, in and "The Flowering of the Rod and " - with its epigram and "...pause to give thanks that we rise again from death and live. and " - faith in love and resurrection is realized in lyric and strongly Biblical imagery.