'Echoes inhabit the garden': Mysticism, postmodernism, and the humanities as envisioned in the Garden Experience of T. S. Eliot's 'Four Quartets'

Focusing on the Garden Experience in Burnt Norton i of T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets, I have attempted to show how Burnt Norton i's mystical content reflects Richard Palmer's postmodern hermeneutics; how Burnt Norton i's postmodern content, which is only partially apprehended in a world immersed in Enlightenment values, serves as a corrective to Eliot's own modernist era; and finally how such content in Burnt Norton i is pertinent to a study of the humanities disciplines from a postmodern perspective.