Why Read Four Quartets? - Softcover

Brous, Tom

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1532635680 ISBN 13: 9781532635687

Publisher: Resource Publications, 2017

Synopsis

Why Read Four Quartets? is offered to encourage readers unfamiliar with T. S. Eliot's masterpiece to "take up, read, and inwardly digest" these beautiful and sacred poems. Commentary is offered to hopefully make the poems more accessible to a general reader. Most critics and commentators do not seem to take Eliot's own spirituality seriously, or at least they don't choose to comment on it. Literary analysis is often emphasized to the exclusion of viewing the quartets in a personal or biographical manner. In sharp contrast to these typical studies, this book endeavors to show that the quartets, along with his earlier post-1927 poetry (Ariel Poems and Ash Wednesday), can be read as the story of Eliot's own mystical journey to the Divine.

About this title

About the Author

Tom Brous is a retired attorney-at-law and adjunct law professor. He has studied and lectured on Four Quartets for over thirty years and wishes to share his insights with the general reader.

Edition details

• Publisher: Resource Publications
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1532635680
• ISBN 13: 9781532635687
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 114