The English Eliot: Design, Language and Landscape in Four Quartets

by Steve Ellis

Book Overview

This book, first published in 1991, supplies a neglected cultural context for T. S. Eliot's writings of the 1930s and 1940s, particularly Four Quartets, and attempts to disprove the widespread belief in Eliot's unproblematic commitment to England, and the 'Englishness'.

The book traces Eliot's classicism not only in linguistic and formalist terms but also in his construction of England in the Quartets and Quartets-related...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138999423
• ISBN13: 9781138999428
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"