| Description |
8 unnumbered pages, 200 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Burnt Norton -- East Coker -- The dry salvages -- Little Gidding |
| Summary |
Eliot's Four Quartets is arguably the finest long poem in modern English literature. It is also one that does present considerable problems of interpretation. It is this author's aim to unravel some of these problems by guiding the reader line by line through the poem, blending paraphrase with commentary. Four Quartets is seen as distinctively and pre-eminently a post-Joycean work. Its construction, the nature of its language and its referential economy strongly recall the technique of Ulysses. The musical structure, with its elaborate chains of echoes reverberating back and forth, is seen as especially important--a mode of expression precisely relevant to the meaning. Blamires pays particular attention to the philosophical and theological dimensions of the poem and to its multifarious personal, historical and literary allusions (particularly those to Dante). Finally, Blamires emphasizes that although he can provide some of the keys he cannot open all the doors. He stresses the condition of receptiveness necessary for the full realisation of this rich, beautiful but often elusive poem.--Adapted from book jacket |
| Notes |
Distributed in the U.S.A. by Barnes and Noble |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965. Four quartets.
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| LC no. |
75438188 |
| ISBN |
0416140203 |
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0416299105 |
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