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Four Quartets
Four Quartets, cycle of poems by T.S. Eliot, collected in 1943. These religious and philosophic meditations have a musical structure implied by their title, and are composed of four long lyrics titled by place names: Burnt Norton, the site of an English country house; East Coker, the English village that was the Eliot family's ancestral home; The Dry Salvages, a group of rocks off Cape Ann, Massachusetts; and Little Gidding, the British site of a 17th‐century Anglican community. The dominant themes are time present, time past, time future, timelessness, identity, memory, consciousness, and place.
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James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Four Quartets." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Four Quartets." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O123-FourQuartets.html James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Four Quartets." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O123-FourQuartets.html |
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