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THE MORAL ARGUMENT OF T. S. ELIOT'S "FOUR QUARTETS" (BRADLEY, ETHICS, NEO-HEGELIANISM, ROYCE).
… Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," culminating in Four Quartets, and finding a new mode of expression in the dramas. By tracing Eliot's moral thought to the nineteenth century anti-utilitarian moral controversies out of which Bradley's Ethical Studies grew, this study clarifies Eliot's position in …
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Agricultural approaches to T. S. Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral and Four Quartets.
… views in Murder in the Cathedral and Four Quartets. Drawing on Jeremy Diaper's book T. S. Eliot and Organicism, I explore how Eliot performs and communicates his agrarian politics through these works and how his agrarianism intersects with a Christian understanding of time, martyrdom, …
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The Affirmation of Life in Wallace Stevens' "The Auroras of Autumn" and T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets
… "The Auroras of Autumn" and T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets, defining the term affirmation by the expansive embrace of suffering demonstrated by Alyosha Karamazov in Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov. I maintain that, similar to Alyosha, Stevens affirms life by acknowledging the …
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Toward the still point : T. S. Eliot's Four quartets and Thoreau's Walden
… he wrote his most autobiographical poetic work Four Quartets, might have been influenced by Thoreau’s famously autobiographical prose work Walden, written nearly a century earlier. Much evidence suggests that Eliot knew of the earlier writer and his work. Not only did Eliot assign Walden as …
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"The Pattern is Movement": Images of Timelessness and Patterns of Response in T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets
T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets is full of beautiful and resounding imagery, yet the art of unfolding these images, discovering the movement and drama taking place in and between them, often remains elusive. In this thesis, I approach this problem by offering a detailed reading of Eliot's four poems, …
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Words without End: The Development of T. S. Eliot's Poetics from "The Waste Land" to "Four Quartets"
… voice of the Thunder. By contrast, <italic>Four Quartets</italic> not only admits but actively perpetrates linguistic slippage and non-reference. It thereby progresses by way of a poetics of renunciation that resists competing modes of knowledge, including rationality, experience, and the …
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T. S. Eliot's aesthetics of immediacy: Language and perception in Knowledge and Experience, The Waste Land and Four Quartets
… and those of the unifying function found in Four Quartets. Chapter 6 reads Four Quartets as a quintessential poetic performance of the Eliotic aesthetic unity. This poem plays out the perceptual-and-signifying process of interpretative activity in which the world appears as a meaningful …
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T.S. Eliot's Paradiso
<p>The Four Quartets of Mr. Eliot have been the subject of many critical studies since their publication in 1943. Among other aspects of them which have been analyzed is their relationship to the Divine Comedy of Dante. In particular the influence of the Inferno and Purgatorio has been pointed out …
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Visions of Origins and Ends: Personhood in the Poetry of T.S. Eliot, John Heath-Stubbs, and Geoffrey Hill
… made for love. If, as Eliot posits in the Four Quartets, “In my beginning is my end,” then the creation of man and woman in the image and likeness of God, and their original sin, reveal their need for redemption from their disordered end as members of Adam, and the fittingness of God’s …
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“Forgotten Wars” : war in the writings of T. S. Eliot
… of Eliot’s writings. In total, there are four chapters in this thesis. Drawing upon Eliot’s wartime biography and correspondence during the First World War, the first chapter explores Eliot’s wartime writings in relation to their historical context, and suggest that, while the War affected …
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Spiritual quest as aesthetic vision: aspects of T.S. Eliot's poetics as related to his literary works
… , to the sense of illumination and beatitude in Four Quartets. This progression, which reflects the pattern of the three stages in the Christian drama of salvation, is also evident in Eliot's plays. I have tried to show that his poetry, his poetics, and his life all fall into a common pattern and …
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Tea, gammon, and coke : the eucharistic imaginary of T.S. Eliot and Denise Levertov.
… faith traditions. From Eliot's Waste Land to his Four Quartets, Levertov's Vietnam war poetry to her religious lyrics, acts of ritualized and eucharistic eating allow these poets to engage with everyday acts of consumption as signs of injustice or sites of redemption. Along with their major poetic …
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Echoes Inhabit the Garden: The Music of Poetry and Place in T.S. Eliot
… shift to the countryside and the rose-garden of Four Quartets. The central idea of this perspective is that Eliot’s compositional process of forming a poetic voice depended on his sense of orientation in both place and language, and that his process was intimately concerned with the role of this …
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From isolation to incorporation : medical-theological imagery in the work of T.S. Eliot, C.S. Lewis, and Gwyneth Lewis.
… "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and Four Quartets, exploring the transformation of his surgical metaphors from the earlier poem to the later work. I argue that Eliot's surgical metaphors reflect his conversion to Christianity and a shift from modernist medicine to an engagement with …
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'A Raid on the Inarticulate’: Exploring Authenticity, Ereignis and Dwelling in Martin Heidegger and T.S. Eliot
… Rilke. A detailed analysis of Eliot's late work Four Quartets reveals how Ereignis, both as an ineluctable and an epiphanic condition of human existence, is central to his poetry, confirming, in Heidegger's words, 'what poets are for in a destitute time', namely to re-found and restore the wonder …
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Aldo Rossi, autobiografia scientifica: scrittura come progetto. Indagine critica tra scrittura e progetto di architettura
… on life and things expressed by T.S. Eliot in Four Quartets: «Time present and time past / Are both perhaps present in time future, / And time future is contained in time past. / I all time is eternally present / All time is unredeemable. / What might have been is an abstraction / Remaining …