Four Quartets
Book description
Four Quartets is the culminating achievement of T.S. Eliot's career as a poet. 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…
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2 authors picked Four Quartets as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Poetry is supposed to be difficult, right? The erudite poets like Milton, Shakespeare, Yeats, and Dickinson blend insight, psychology, philosophy, wisdom, meter, and magic sauce into a puzzle to suss out. Eliot is like that most of the time, but not in this book, where he is so direct, plain and simple, amazed and amazing, that I am not once tempted to apply critical theory.
If there is a possibility of divine inspiration, this has always felt like Exhibit 1 to me. Every time I think I might have to figure out what he’s saying, he says, “Don’t bother,” by…
From Neal's list on books on spirituality for people who hate books on spirituality.
I want to include this slim volume of four fairly long, connected poems because I have turned to it so often over the years. T.S. Eliot could be called a modern mystic, for he was ahead of his time. Nostalgia for another age is mixed with single lines that keep you thinking for days, and there are elements you can only appreciate intuitively. Reading these poems takes me to unknown places that I think I remember, and to times beyond this time.
From Sarita's list on tarot archetypes and the I Ching.
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