Philosophical elements in four quartets
Koers - Bulletin for Christian Scholarship
| Field | Value | |
| Title | Philosophical elements in four quartets | |
| Creator | Weideman, A. J. | |
| Description | Four Quartets serves as an illustration of the undeniable fact that Western literature forms a unity, and bears out the truth of Eliot’s statement that “the whole of the literature of Europe from Homer... has a simultaneous existence and composes a si multaneous order” !). Again, as is the case with most other criti cal remarks on Four Quartets, the contents of the poems them selves serve as timely reminders of this fact, and thus seem to provide a more legitimate material basis for critical enquiry. For on several occasions Eliot takes up this point, and perhaps no where as unambiguously as in East Coker: “ And what there is to conquer By strength and submission, has already been discovered Once or twice, or several times, by men whom one cannot hope To emulate — but there is no competition — There is only the fight to recover what has been lost And found and lost again and again...” | |
| Publisher | AOSIS | |
| Date | 1977-02-06 | |
| Identifier | 10.4102/koers.v42i6.1229 | |
| Source | Koers - Bulletin for Christian Scholarship/Bulletin vir Christelike Wetenskap; Vol 42, No 6 (1977); 525-532 2304-8557 0023-270X | |
| Language | eng | |
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