Reading T.S. Eliot : four quartets and the journey towards understanding

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"This book offers an exciting new approach to T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets as it shows why it should be read both closely and in relation to Eliot's other works, notably the poems The Waste Land, "The Hollow Men," and Ash-Wednesday. In Four Quartets, Incarnation is the universal, timeless pattern, the paradigmatic instance of which occurs in and as the Incarnation"--Provided by publisher. Cover; Four Quartets and the Journey towards Understanding; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Criticism and the Enigma of Arrival; Approaching Four Quartets; Toward the Kingdom of the Dead: From Homer to Swift (and Beyond); Gulliver's Travels; Chapter 2: The Pattern Refined: Four Quartets and the Way of Incarnation; Arriving (at Last); The Responsibilities of Arrival; On the Way, Again-Still; Chapter 3: Ash Wednesday: Six Poems: Facing the Truth, Accepting the Silence; "Perch 'io Non Spero": Turning Away; "Salutation": Separation and "Impossible Union"