Four Quartets

Author: T. S. Eliot
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0547539703
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 65

Book Description
The last major verse written by Nobel laureate T. S. Eliot, considered by Eliot himself to be his finest work Four Quartets is a rich composition that expands the spiritual vision introduced in “The Waste Land.” Here, in four linked poems (“Burnt Norton,” “East Coker,” “The Dry Salvages,” and “Little Gidding”), spiritual, philosophical, and personal themes emerge through symbolic allusions and literary and religious references from both Eastern and Western thought. It is the culminating achievement by a man considered the greatest poet of the twentieth century and one of the seminal figures in the evolution of modernism.

Annotations to T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets

Author: Herman Servotte
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1450240682
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 64

Book Description
This book of annotations to Four Quartets provides unparalleled, page by page insights into the thoughts and background material behind the poem. It will be a unique asset for any reader who wants help in navigating the extraordinary complexities of T.S. Eliots final masterpiece. Carol Simpson Stern, Professor, Department of Performance Studies and Poetry, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois

Dove Descending

Author: Thomas Howard
Publisher: Sapienta Classics
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 156

Book Description
T.S. Eliot is widely considered the most important and most influential poet of the 20th century. Many consider Four Quartets to be the finest of his poems and his greatest achievement. In this masterful journey into the beauties and depths of Eliot's masterpiece, the bestselling author, professor and critic Thomas Howard unravels the complexities of the sublime poem with such adept adroitness that even its most difficult passages spring to life. During his long years as a professor teaching English and Literature, Howard taught this poem often, and developed what he calls "a reading" approach to the concepts of this masterpiee to render its meaning more lucid for the reader. Therefore, this is not a "scholarly" work, but rather the brilliant insights of a master teacher and writer whose understanding of this profound poem and his deep love for the writing of Eliot are shared here for the great benefit of the reader.

Poems

Author: Thomas Stearns Eliot
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 72

Book Description
A collection of poems, some of which had first appeared in Poetry, Blas, Others, The Little Review, and Arts and Letters.

Redeeming Time

Author: Kenneth Paul Kramer
Publisher: Cowley Publications
ISBN: 1461635888
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 332

Book Description
This exploration of T. S. Eliot's last major poem, Four Quartets, examines the poem’s potential to transform readers’ faith journeys. Kramer shows that the power of Four Quartets is its ability to create a dynamic interaction between the poem and the reader that promotes a genuine connection with the natural world, with others, and with the Divine.

Word Unheard

Author: Harry Blamires
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000156281
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 231

Book Description
Eliot’s Four Quartets is arguably the finest long poem in modern English literature. It is also one that presents considerable problems of interpretation. In Word Unheard, first published in 1969, Blamires aims to unravel some of these problems by guiding the reader line by line through the poem, blending paraphrase with commentary. Blamires pays particular attention to the philosophical and theological dimensions of the poem and to its multifarious personal, historical and literary allusions. This title will be of interests to students of literature.

Why Read Four Quartets?

Author: Tom Brous
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1532635699
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 96

Book Description
Why Read Four Quartets? is offered to encourage readers unfamiliar with T. S. Eliot's masterpiece to "take up, read, and inwardly digest" these beautiful and sacred poems. Commentary is offered to hopefully make the poems more accessible to a general reader. Most critics and commentators do not seem to take Eliot's own spirituality seriously, or at least they don't choose to comment on it. Literary analysis is often emphasized to the exclusion of viewing the quartets in a personal or biographical manner. In sharp contrast to these typical studies, this book endeavors to show that the quartets, along with his earlier post-1927 poetry (Ariel Poems and Ash Wednesday), can be read as the story of Eliot's own mystical journey to the Divine.

The Dry Salvages

Author: Thomas Stearns Eliot
Publisher: London : Faber and Faber
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 15

Book Description

Qu4rtets

Author: Bruce Whitney Herman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780615721668
Category : Arts and religion
Languages : en
Pages : 102

Book Description

T. S. Eliot and the Ideology of Four Quartets

Author: John Xiros Cooper
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521496292
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 260

Book Description
Criticism of Eliot has ignored the public dimension of his life and work. His poetry is often seen as the private record of an internal spiritual struggle. Professor Cooper shows how Eliot deliberately addressed a North Atlantic 'mandarinate' fearful of social disintegration during the politically turbulent 1930s. Almost immediately following publication, Four Quartets was accorded canonical status as a work that promised a personal harmony divorced from the painful disharmonies of the emerging postwar world. Cooper connects Eliot's careers as banker, director and editor to a much wider cultural agenda. He aimed to reinforce established social structures during a period of painful political transition. This powerful and original study re-establishes the public context in which Eliot's work was received and understood. It will become an essential reference work for all interested in a wider understanding of Eliot and of Anglo-American cultural relations.