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Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2007) 53 (4): 421–441.
Published: 01 December 2007
...Roger Bellin Copyright © Hofstra University 2007 w
The Seduction of Argument
and the Danger of Parody
in the Four Quartets
Roger Beilin
It is a very good sign when the harmonious bores are at a loss
about how they should react to this continuous self-parody...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (4): 413–448.
Published: 01 December 2018
... intellectual, artistic, and personal development. As Eliot moves from analytic philosophy in his doctoral dissertation through the philosophically invested poetry that culminates in The Waste Land (1922) and, finally, to the autobiographical and participatory idiom of Four Quartets (1943), his work...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (4): 431–462.
Published: 01 December 2020
... Hofstra University 2020 archive “Burnt Norton” Four Quartets modern poetry The Waste Land Recognizing increasingly in this year of our lord 1957 Vital Truth is a priceless heritage in the world of letters or Mankind, to pass on to future generations, I bequeath this collection...
FIGURES
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (1): 59–78.
Published: 01 March 2020
... . Bowen Elizabeth . 2008 . People, Places, Things: Essays by Elizabeth Bowen . Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press . Bradley Salamon Linda . 1973 . “ A Gloss on ‘Daunsinge’: Sir Thomas Elyot and T. S. Eliot’s Four Quartets .” ELH 40 , no. 4 : 584 – 605 . Diepeveen Leonard...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (2): 279–285.
Published: 01 June 2009
... as a misogynist, anti-Semite, and
elitist have not succeeded in shunting him aside.
I would have thought that Oser’s Eliot would center on Four Quartets,
a poem that he notes in passing “may be the finest long poem in English
in the twentieth century” (88). Suprisingly, he has little to say about...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2008) 54 (4): 526–530.
Published: 01 December 2008
... with the antimilitarism of
Three Guineas, MacKay argues instead that this last novel’s ruralism in
volves a proleptic “participation in what have since become consolatory
cultural memories of the war” (23). More convincingly, her intertextual
reading of Four Quartets alongside Eliot’s wartime propaganda...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2007) 53 (3): 414–420.
Published: 01 September 2007
..., “Homoeroticisms.”
Peter M iddletons “The Masculinity behind the Ghosts o f Modernism
in Eliot’s Four Quartets” closely examines several republications o f Burnt
Norton— as a freestanding poem in 1936, as a pamphlet in 1942, and finally
as the first poem in Four Quartets (1944)— a series...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2008) 54 (1): 115–127.
Published: 01 March 2008
... Bell’s “significant form” to Eliot’s Four Quartets, the dominant mode
of modernism aspires to the condition of music. Alternatively, classical
modernism “approaches the condition of sculpture, the art of shaping a
resistant matter” (20). So while Pound and Eliot and Lewis tumbled...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (1): 96–103.
Published: 01 March 2016
... as a critic of English literature. Beyond that, the reader can see in his assessment of what makes Andrewes’s writing excellent what Eliot himself attains in Four Quartets over a decade later: an “intellect and sensibility . . . in harmony,” “erudition . . . essential to his originality” in which he “takes...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2005) 51 (4): 504–511.
Published: 01 December 2005
... the Four Quartets
and “Journey of the Magi.” But who would want that? Surely another
consequence of the polarized attitudes toward Eliot—besides blurring our
understanding of how Eliot wanted to be popular—is that the embattled
defenders of his work have spent little time analyzing how much...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2014) 60 (3): 405–413.
Published: 01 September 2014
...
theologies. Commenting on the “Dry Salvages” section of Four Quartets,
Ramazani notes that if travelers “are not the same people who left that
station / Or who will arrive at any terminus” (Eliot here drawing on
Heraclitus, the Buddha, and Krishna), then why should Mary pray for the
wives and mothers...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2010) 56 (4): 437–461.
Published: 01 December 2010
... is ethnically and psychologi-
cally stateless (Letters 172). After four years in France, she confides to her
friend Esther De Solla “I don’t know any of the English people in Paris”
(6). Later, when she visits Stephan in prison, a lawyer asks, “Polish, also?”
(31). Her permit to visit the prison...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2007) 53 (4): 518–529.
Published: 01 December 2007
...
and decidedly special claims on our attention. The term art for art’s sake
was always more than a bit misleading, but the derisory modernism that
led Duchamp to draw a moustache on the Mona Lisa was hardly a typi
cal aspect of the phenomenon that gave us Eliot’s “Four Quartets” and
the Mark Rothko...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2004) 50 (4): 394–420.
Published: 01 December 2004
...
spirituality (“Revelation” 24).The conclusion he reaches in Four Quartets
and The Cocktail Party doesn’t deny the significance of the conscious mind
in making decisions; rather, it demands that we attend to the unknown
influences that make that freedom possible and that lend our decisions
a wider, more...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (3): 532–539.
Published: 01 September 2012
... Kierkegaard and
American pragmatism to make her case for everyday poetics. Phillips’s
centers of value are experiential, aesthetic, and spiritual rather than politi-
cal, and her argument seeks to give due weight to the individual concerns
and artistic challenges faced by her four representative poets...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2000) 46 (4): 396–404.
Published: 01 December 2000
...Elinor Fuchs Copyright © Hofstra University 2001 The Apocalyptic Ibsen:
When We Dead Awaken
E l in o r Fu c h s
And four great beasts came up from the sea The second, like
a bear. It was raised up on one side, and had three ribs in its...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (3): 347–370.
Published: 01 September 2018
... of a contracting British civilization into a resurgent discourse” (54) of native Englishness. T. S. Eliot’s The Four Quartets (1943) and Woolf’s Between the Acts (1941) exemplify this shift, he argues, by turning to “the vitality of native rituals” (55) and “natively English form[s] of primitive resistance...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2007) 53 (1): 1–22.
Published: 01 March 2007
... elegies” (Ramazani 22) — “Death
from Cancer” and “Mary Winslow”— and a poem on dying, “Where the
Rainbow Ends.” She then reads four poems in which Lowell reflects on
his struggles with mental illness, poems with recurring figures of psychic
death and resurrection: “Waking in the Blue,” “Home after...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2004) 50 (3): 239–267.
Published: 01 September 2004
... / Reorient themselves within the
substance / He has contracted to become.”
Eliot’s Four Quartets provides a model for a kaleidoscopic sort of in
nocence that bears comparison with Merrill’s, though Eliot’s religious
discourse differs significantly from Merrill’s more insistently...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2008) 54 (3): 307–338.
Published: 01 September 2008
...
pessimistic about their prospects for success. W hile Eliot was able, so to
speak, to transcend the modern Waste Land in the elegant and doctrinally
orthodox resolutions o f the Four Quartets (and to go on, as Jameson sadly
notes, to function as an ambassador o f official late modernism...
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