Four Quartets (Magill Book Reviews)
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Four Quartets represents the culmination of Eliot’s career as both a modernist and a Christian poet; he completes the spiritual quest that has been apparent in his work since his first published poem, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.” The conclusion of this quest is in what Eliot calls “the timeless moment,” those points in life where the eternal and the temporal intersect, making meaning possible in an otherwise trivial world.
Eliot explores these timeless moments in four specific settings that have significance in his own life, three in England and one in...
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