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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.

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"Reading T.S. Eliot is original - part creative, part scholarly - and, perhaps most importantly, human." - Tod Marshall, Professor of English, Gonzaga University, USA



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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

Reading T.S. Eliot Four Quartets and the Journey towards Understanding

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      Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan Us
      Publication Date: 1/17/2012 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780230112483, 978-0230112483
      ISBN10: 023011248X
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      ELT & Literary Studies Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Literary studies: poetry and poets

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Trade Review

      "Reading T.S. Eliot is original - part creative, part scholarly - and, perhaps most importantly, human." - Tod Marshall, Professor of English, Gonzaga University, USA



      Table of Contents
      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

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