Reading T.S. Eliot [electronic resource] : Four Quartets and the Journey towards Understanding /
Atkins, G.author.
This book offers an exciting new approach to T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets as it shows why it should be read both closely and in relation to Eliot's other works, notably the poems The Waste Land, 'The Hollow Men,' and Ash-Wednesday.
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Cover; Four Quartets and the Journey towards Understanding; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Criticism and the Enigma of Arrival; Approaching Four Quartets; Toward the Kingdom of the Dead: From Homer to Swift (and Beyond); Gulliver's Travels; Chapter 2: The Pattern Refined: Four Quartets and the Way of Incarnation; Arriving (at Last); The Responsibilities of Arrival; On the Way, Again-Still; Chapter 3: Ash Wednesday: Six Poems: Facing the Truth, Accepting the Silence; "Perch 'io Non Spero": Turning Away; "Salutation": Separation and "Impossible Union"
"Som de L'escalina": Turning, Turning, TurningWalking Between; A Hard Turn; The Word within the World; Turning Toward the World; Chapter 4: Magister, Magus, and "The Shadow": Journey of the Magi and "The Hollow Men"; Journey of the Magi, Ash Wednesday, and the Difficulty of Understanding; Eliot's God; "Suffer us not to mock ourselves with falsehood"; The Turning of the "I" and the Meeting of the "Eyes": "The Hollow Men"; Chapter 5: "Looking into the heart of light" and Meeting the Dead: The Waste Land and the Necessity of Indirectness; Eliot and the Dead: Meeting at "this intersection time"
Another "Impossible Union"Chapter 6: Arriving Where We Started: Turning around The Sacred Wood; Chapter 7: The Burden of Arrival: "Gerontion," "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," and "Little Gidding"; The Enigma of  "Little Gidding"; "Gerontion" and the Word within a Word: The Voice of Judeo-Christian Civilization; Arriving at the Beginning and Knowing It for the First Time; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book offers an exciting new approach to T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets as it shows why it should be read both closely and in relation to Eliot's other works, notably the poems The Waste Land, 'The Hollow Men,' and Ash-Wednesday.
Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965
Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965.
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