Four quartets and the journey toward understanding
G. Douglas Atkins.
Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan
2012
196 p
Epublication based on: 9780230112483, 2012.;Electronic book text.;The Critic as Medium Incarnation and the Art of Difficulty "Necessarye Coniunction": Eliot's Intra-textual Words What Manner of Thing? On Pattern, Design, and Form Learning to Read the World Rhyming, or Two Wor(l)ds Much Like Each Other The Rose, the Fire, and Love, or God Devised the Torment, Preventing Us Everywhere "The hint half guessed, the gift half understood" and Purgation or Purification Not Coterminous but One.
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.This book offers an exciting new approach to T.S. Eliot'sFour Quartetsthrough both a close reading and a comparison to Eliot's other works, notably the poems "The Waste Land", "The Hollow Men", and "Ash-Wednesday". G. Douglas Atkins reveals that inFour Quartets, incarnation is the universal, timeless pattern in Eliot's work.
Eliot, T. S. -- (Thomas Stearns), -- 1888-1965 -- Criticism and interpretation.