T.S. Eliot and the Fulfillment of Christian Poetics [electronic resource] /
Atkins, G.author.
The culmination of a trilogy that began with T.S. Eliot, Lancelot Andrewes, and the Word, and continued with T.S. Eliot: The Poet as Christian, this gracefully executed new book brings to a triumphant conclusion the unique effort to pinpoint and identify the Christian characteristics of Eliot's poetic art. The book offers a close but companionable reading of each of the complex poems that make up Four Quartets, the essay-poem that is Eliot's masterwork. Focusing on the range of speaking voices dramatized, Atkins reveals for the first time the Incarnational form that governs the work's 'purposive movement' toward purification and fulfilment of points of view that were represented earlier in the poems.
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Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; 1 Four Quartets: Simulacrum of Being; 2 Burnt Norton: "The ancient rhyme in a new verse": "Only through time time is conquered"; 3 East Coker: "Mixing Memory and Desire": Lyrical Response and the Fear "Of belonging to another, or to others, or to God"; 4 The Dry Salvages: Many Voices, Many Gods; 5 The Dry Salvages (Continued): Four Quartets and the Work in the Word: What the Word Does
6 Little Gidding: Coming This Way, Coming Closer: Commonality, Communication, Community, and Communion, or What's Being Done in What's Being Said7 Little Gidding (Continued): The Pattern in the Movement, the Doing in the Speaking; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The culmination of a trilogy that began with T.S. Eliot, Lancelot Andrewes, and the Word, and continued with T.S. Eliot: The Poet as Christian, this gracefully executed new book brings to a triumphant conclusion the unique effort to pinpoint and identify the Christian characteristics of Eliot's poetic art. The book offers a close but companionable reading of each of the complex poems that make up Four Quartets, the essay-poem that is Eliot's masterwork. Focusing on the range of speaking voices dramatized, Atkins reveals for the first time the Incarnational form that governs the work's 'purposive movement' toward purification and fulfilment of points of view that were represented earlier in the poems.
Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965
Literature-History and criticism.
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Literary History.
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Religion and Society.
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North American Literature.
British and Irish Literature.