Reading T.S. Eliot
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Reading T.S. Eliot

Four Quartets and the Journey towards Understanding

  1. English
  2. PDF
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Reading T.S. Eliot

Four Quartets and the Journey towards Understanding

About this book

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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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Four Quartets and the Journey towards Understanding
  3. Contents
  4. Preface and Acknowledgments
  5. Chapter 1: Criticism and the Enigma of Arrival
  6. Chapter 2: The Pattern Refined: Four Quartets and the Way of Incarnation
  7. Chapter 3: Ash Wednesday: Six Poems: Facing the Truth, Accepting the Silence
  8. Chapter 4: Magister, Magus, and “The Shadow”: Journey of the Magi and “The Hollow Men”
  9. Chapter 5: “Looking into the heart of light” and Meeting the Dead: The Waste Land and the Necessity of Indirectness
  10. Chapter 6: Arriving Where We Started: Turning around The Sacred Wood
  11. Chapter 7: The Burden of Arrival: “Gerontion,” “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” and “Little Gidding”
  12. Notes
  13. Bibliography
  14. Index