num_pages: 234
description: The impact of T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets continues to be a matter of disagreement, in part because none of the critical procedures developed in the last fifty years has been responsive to the kind of poetry found in the Quartets. In Words in Time, ten distinguished critics and scholars present a variety of critical approaches to this important work of modernism. The authors discuss such issues as language and the ways in which philosophical issues can inform it; Eliot's use of repetition, relation, and pattern; and the concept of time - the personal time of the poet's life and encounter with history. Themes of each essay are taken up, directly and indirectly, in other essays; thus the writer's monologue is succeeded by dialogue with other writers, providing a forum for discussion and debate.
language: English
title: Words in Time: New Essays on Eliot's Four Quartets
titlecomplete: Words in Time: New Essays on Eliot's Four Quartets
ratings_count: 3
publisher: Univ of Michigan Pr