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