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Four Quartets by T. S. Eliot

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Author Biography

Name: Thomas Stearns Eliot
Birth Date: September 26, 1888
Death Date: January 4, 1965
Place of Birth: St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Place of Death: London, England
Nationality: American, English
Gender: Male
Occupations: author, poet, critic, playwright, editor, publisher

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Biography of Thomas Stearns Eliot
19947 words, approx. 66.5 pages
T. S. Eliot is one of the giants of modern literature, highly distinguished as poet, literary critic, dramatist, and editor/publisher. In 1910-1911, while still a student, he wrote "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and other poems which are landmarks...
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Biography of T(homas) S(tearns) Eliot
16377 words, approx. 54.6 pages
T. S. Eliot is one of the giants of modern literature, highly distinguished as poet, literary critic, dramatist, and editor/publisher. In 1910-1911, while still a student, he wrote "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and other poems which are landmarks...
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Biography of T(homas) S(tearns) Eliot
16364 words, approx. 54.5 pages
T.S. Eliot 's contributions to twentieth-century literature are complex, far reaching, and of perhaps greater import than those of any other major literary figure of the period. His poems created a revolution in and revaluation of the world of poetry, an...
 


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Four Quartets Information
3,405 words, approx. 11 pages
Four Quartets is the name given to four related poems by T. S. Eliot, collected and republished in book form in 1943. They had been published individually from 1935 to 1942. Their titles are Burnt Norton, East Coker, The Dry Salvages, and Little...


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The Washington Post
Sibelius Quartets, Stepping to the Four
03/10/2002: 527 words, approx. 2 pages
Composer Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) had one of the strangest careers in history. Here is a man who produced masterpieces and kitsch, cheek by jowl, over the course of four decades and then stopped writing music altogether for the last 25 years of his life....
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The Boston Globe
Harmonious notes from four quartets
01/27/1995: 970 words, approx. 3 pages
There is news from all four of Boston's leading resident string quartets. In alphabetical order: The Borromeo Quartet has a new violist, Hsin-Yun Huang. According to first violinist Nicholas Kitchin, the former violist Ensik Choi approached the other members of the quartet last...
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The New York Observer
Fighting Misery With Memory, A Widower Hopes for Healing
5/15/2005: 737 words, approx. 3 pages
Rules for Old Men Waiting, by Peter Pouncey. Random House, 210 pages, $21.95.A week or so ago, John Saumarez Smith, who runs the great bookshop Heywood Hill in London, called to tell me that I must read Peter Pouncey's Rules for Old Men Waiting. It...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Lois A. Cuddy
3,641 words, approx. 12 pages
In the following essay, Cuddy asserts that the sea and river imagery in "Dry Salvages" points to "the unifying theme of peregrination" in T. S. Eliot's poetry.
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Essay Grade: 88%
The Use of Figurative language in T.S. Elliot's Little Gidding
1,142 words, approx. 4 pages
Reviews section five of the poem the "Little Gidding," by American poet T.S. Elliot. Pays particular attention to Elliot's use of figurative language. Analyzes the theme of the circle of life.
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Essay Grade: 75%
Critical Analysis of Burnt Norton by T.S Eliot
466 words, approx. 2 pages
"Burnt Norton" is a poem written by T.S. Eliot. The poem is the first of Eliot's "Four quartets"; first published in 1943. The title of the poem "Burnt Norton", is the name of a Gloucestershire manor house, the children mentioned in the poem are playing in the rose garden at this manor house.


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