T.S. Eliot. Four Quartets. 1971

Format 59 pages, Paperback Published August 31, 1974 by Harcourt Brace International ASIN B00Y4QFM8G Language English Книга на английском языке. 130 х 210 mm.   The Four Quartets is a series of four poems by T. S. Eliot, published individually from 1936 to 1942, and in book form in 1943; it was considered by Eliot himself to be his finest work. Each of the quartets has five "movements" and each is titled by a place name -- BURNT NORTON (1936) , EAST COKER (1940) , THE DRY SALVAGES (1941) , and LITTLE GIDDING (1942) . Eliot's insights into the cyclical nature of life are revealed through themes and images woven throughout the four poems. Spiritual, philosophical, and personal themes emerge through symbolic allusions and literary and religious references from both Eastern and Western thought. The work addresses the connections of the personal and historical present and past, spiritual rene