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Reading T. S. Eliot: The Rose Garden and After (1930s–1950s) book cover

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Reading T. S. Eliot The Rose Garden and After (1930s–1950s)

Edited By Dídac Llorens-Cubedo, Viorica Patea Copyright 2026
286 Pages
by Routledge

286 Pages
by Routledge
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In “Burnt Norton,” the poetic speaker enters a rose garden, a space of envisioned timeless illumination. This experience sets in motion a spiritual quest, which will confer unity upon Four Quartets . For the poet himself, it inaugurates a creative phase (mid-1930s to late-1950s) that strengthens his sense of faith and community. Eliot, increasingly interested in playwriting, completed his... Read more

Introduction: "Through the First Gate," into the Rose Garden and Beyond

Dídac Llorens-Cubedo and Viorica Patea,

 

 

Part I               The Poet, the Rose Garden, and the Playhouse (1930s)

 

Poetics of the Incarnation: T. S. Eliot’s Four Quartets

Barry Spurr

 

Experiencing Murder in the Cathedral: How "Indicative Criticism" Can Position Audiences to Appreciate the Play

Charles Altieri

 

 "That moment of mystery": T. S. Eliot’s Practical Cats as a Turning Point

Ester Díaz Morillo

 

To Speak Poetry: Eliot’s Project to Revive Verse Drama

Natalia Carbajosa Palmero

 

"Chiefly your doing": Emily Hale and the Making of a Playwright

Sara Fitzgerald

 

Part II              Full-Time Dramatist with a Vision (late 1930s-late 1950s)

 

T. S. Eliot and Greek Drama

Peter Liebregts

 

Eliot, Aeschylus, and Aristotle: Theme and Plot in The Family Reunion

Jewel Spears Brooker

 

Protean Self and Anagnorisis through Art in T. S. Eliot’s The Confidential Clerk

Leonor María Martínez Serrano

 

'Proper Sowing' and 'right action' in Eliot’s Plays and Four Quartets

Viorica Patea

 

After Four Quartets: T. S. Eliot’s Comedies as Footnotes or Exempla

Dídac Llorens-Cubedo

 

Part III             Critic with a Wider Scope (1940s-1960s)

 

To Criticize the Dramatist: Eliot on His Plays

Teresa Gibert

 

The Responsibility of a Christian Thinker: T. S. Eliot, World War 2, and Post War Reconstruction

Joana Rzepa

 

Patristic Christianity in T. S. Eliot’s Philosophy of Education

John Rhett Forman

 

Christopher Dawson and Eliot on Culture and Politics

Benjamin G. Lockerd

Biography

Dídac Llorens-Cubedo is Associate Professor of English at the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED, Spain). He has published T. S. Eliot and Salvador Espriu: Converging Poetic Imaginations (2013) and co-edited New Literatures of Old: Dialogues of Tradition and Innovation in Anglophone Literatures (2008) and T. S. Eliot. Teatro Completo (2022).

Viorica Patea is Professor of English Literature at the University of Salamanca. She has published books on Sylvia Plath, Ezra Pound, and T.S. Eliot. Her edited books include Short Story Theories (2012), Modernism Revisited (2007) with Paul Scott Derrick, and Ezra Pound & the Spanish World (2024) with John Gery.

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