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The Spirituality of T. S. Eliot: A Gloss on The Waste Land and Four Quartets

The Spirituality of T. S. Eliot: A Gloss on The Waste Land and Four Quartets

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ISBN13: 9798373374910
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jan 25 2023
Pages: 260
Weight: 0.78
Height: 0.55 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

In his preface, Redmond writes: A century ago, Thomas Sterns Eliot published The Waste Land (1922), the poem that shook the staid world of Anglo-Saxon intellectuals. Eliot thought that the hope of the renaissance, after passing through the rationality of the Enlightenment and the utopia of the 19th century, was ending in a desert of 'futility and desperation'. He saw the cause as culture loss. We have broken with our deepest traditions: literary, philosophical, spiritual; we have lost our humanities, our humanity. [...] Eliot never lost his pessimism. But he balanced this realism with the hopefulness obvious in his later works, especially in Four Quartets, but hinted at in The Waste Land. He spoke of a turning; we may always turn away from chaos, turn back to our roots, 'fare forward', even 'beyond'. In Four Quartets, he wished to 'retune the delicate relation of the Eternal to the transient'.

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