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Description for Four Quartets
paperback. The culminating achievement of Eliot's poetic career. The four parts: "Burnt Norton","East Coker", "The Dry Salvages" and "Little Gidding" present a rigorous meditation upon those spiritual, philosophical and personal themes that preoccupied the author. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 129 x 5. Weight in Grams: 92. Seventh Impression. From the library of Ivor Browne and June Levine. Good clean copy. Covers showing some shelf wear. Lightly toned and with spotting on page edges, however text is crisp and clear, remains a very good copy
Four Quartets is the culminating achievement of T.S. Eliot's career as a poet. While containing some of the most musical and unforgettable passages in twentieth-century poetry, its four parts, 'Burnt Norton', 'East Coker', 'The Dry Salvages' and 'Little Gidding', present a rigorous meditation on the spiritual, philosophical and personal themes which preoccupied the author. It was the way in which a private voice was heard to speak for the concerns of an entire generation, in the midst of war and doubt, that confirmed it as an enduring masterpiece.
Four Quartets is the culminating achievement of T.S. Eliot's career as a poet. While containing some of the most musical and unforgettable passages in twentieth-century poetry, its four parts, 'Burnt Norton', 'East Coker', 'The Dry Salvages' and 'Little Gidding', present a rigorous meditation on the spiritual, philosophical and personal themes which preoccupied the author. It was the way in which a private voice was heard to speak for the concerns of an entire generation, in the midst of war and doubt, that confirmed it as an enduring masterpiece.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Faber and Faber
Condition
Used, Good
Number of Pages
56
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571068944
SKU
KSG0031490
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Ref
99-1
About T.S. Eliot
Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in St Louis, Missouri, in 1888. He settled in England in 1915 and published his first book of poems in 1917. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Eliot died in 1965.
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