Four Quartets (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
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- Author: T. S. Eliot
- First Published: 1943
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric sequence, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: History, Twentieth century, Music or musicians, Religion, Poetry or poets, England or English people, Christianity
Simpler, more direct in style than much of his early work, Four Quartets stands as the masterpiece of Eliot's poetic maturity and as an index of the extent to which his poetic concerns had changed and his spiritual concerns had deepened. Each poem of the group, as C. K. Stead has ably documented, is in five movements in quartet or sonata form. The first part of each concerns the movement of time, in which fleeting moments of eternity flicker. Dissatisfaction with worldly experience is the keynote of each of the second parts. Part 3 is a spiritual quest for purgation and...
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