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The English Eliot Design, Language and Landscape in Four Quartets

By Steve Ellis Copyright 1991
216 Pages
by Routledge

216 Pages
by Routledge

216 Pages
by Routledge

This book, first published in 1991, supplies a neglected cultural context for T. S. Eliot’s writings of the 1930s and 1940s, particularly Four Quartets, and attempts to disprove the widespread belief in Eliot’s unproblematic commitment to England, and the ‘Englishness’. The book traces Eliot’s classicism not only in linguistic and formalist terms but also in his construction of England in... Read more

List of Plates;  Acknowledgements;  List of Abbreviations and Editions used in the Text;  Introduction;  1. Classic Design  2. Eliot’s English  3. Eliot’s England  4. Eliot and Auden;  Notes;  Index

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