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Four Quartets
by Eliot, T.S
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Black cloth, gilt lettering down the spine. Dust-jacket has short tears along top of front and at the spine. Pages are bright an
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About This Item
New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1943. First Edition, Second Impression without the statement "First American Edition" or publisher's codes present in later impressions. 39pp. 8vo. Black cloth, gilt lettering down the spine. Dust-jacket has short tears along top of front and at the spine. Pages are bright and clean and is overall a fine copy. First Edition, Second Impression without the statement "First American Edition" or publisher's codes present in later impressions. 39pp. 8vo. Eliot's Four Quartets is undisputably one of the most important and ambitious poems of this century.
Synopsis
The last major verse written by Nobel laureate T. S. Eliot, considered by Eliot himself to be his finest work Four Quartets is a rich composition that expands the spiritual vision introduced in “The Waste Land.” Here, in four linked poems (“Burnt Norton,” “East Coker,” “The Dry Salvages,” and “Little Gidding”), spiritual, philosophical, and personal themes emerge through symbolic allusions and literary and religious references from both Eastern and Western thought. It is the culminating achievement by a man considered the greatest poet of the twentieth century and one of the seminal figures in the evolution of modernism.
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- Bookseller
- James Cummins Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 324947
- Title
- Four Quartets
- Author
- Eliot, T.S
- Format/Binding
- 39pp. 8vo
- Book Condition
- Used - Black cloth, gilt lettering down the spine. Dust-jacket has short tears along top of front and at the spine. Pages are bright an
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, Second Impression without the statement "First Am
- Publisher
- Harcourt Brace and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1943
- Keywords
- Poetry | British | British | Gift Ideas | T.S. Eliot
- Bookseller catalogs
- Illustrated Books; Literature;
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