Four Quartets

Informationen zum Autor Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in St Louis! Missouri! in 1888. He settled in England in 1915 and published his first book of poems in 1917. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Eliot died in 1965. Klappentext First published in 1944. SEE NEW JACKET EDITION (with BERTRAMS ISBN) (020200774x). Four Quartets by T. S. Eliot - made up of 'Burnt Norton', 'East Coker', 'The Dry Salvages' and 'Little Gidding' - is perhaps the culminating achievement of the Nobel Prize-winning poet's career. Zusammenfassung While containing some of the most musical and unforgettable passages in twentieth-century poetry, its four parts, 'Burnt Norton', 'East Coker', 'The Dry Salvages' and 'Little Gidding', present a rigorous meditation on the spiritual, philosophical and personal themes which preoccupied the author.

Préface
Four Quartets by T. S. Eliot - made up of 'Burnt Norton', 'East Coker', 'The Dry Salvages' and 'Little Gidding' - is perhaps the culminating achievement of the Nobel Prize-winning poet's career.

Auteur
Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in St Louis, Missouri, in 1888. He settled in England in 1915 and published his first book of poems in 1917. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Eliot died in 1965.

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First published in 1944. SEE NEW JACKET EDITION (with BERTRAMS ISBN) (020200774x).

Résumé
While containing some of the most musical and unforgettable passages in twentieth-century poetry, its four parts, 'Burnt Norton', 'East Coker', 'The Dry Salvages' and 'Little Gidding', present a rigorous meditation on the spiritual, philosophical and personal themes which preoccupied the author.