four quartets and the journey toward understanding /
G. Douglas Atkins
1st ed
ix, 185 pages,
23 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index
Criticism and the enigma of arrival -- The pattern refined : Four quartets and the way of incarnation -- Ash Wednesday : six poems-facing the truth, accepting the silence -- Magister, Magus, and "the shadow" : Journey of the Magi and "The hollow men" -- "Looking into the heart of light" and meeting the dead : The waste land and the necessity of indirectness -- Arriving where we started : turning around The sacred wood -- The burden of arrival : "Gerontion", "The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock", and "Little Gidding"
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"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. In Four Quartets, Incarnation is the universal, timeless pattern, the paradigmatic instance of which occurs in and as the Incarnation"--Provided by publisher
Eliot, T. S., (Thomas Stearns),1888-1965-- Criticism and interpretation
Eliot, T. S., (Thomas Stearns),1888-1965., Four quartets