The Spirituality Of T S Eliot S Four Quarters
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The Spirituality Of T S Eliot
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Author : Walter Redmond
language : en
Publisher: Aliosventos Ediciones AC
Release Date : 2023-02-03
The Spirituality Of T S Eliot written by Walter Redmond and has been published by Aliosventos Ediciones AC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-02-03 with Religion categories.
In his preface, Redmond writes: “A century ago, Thomas Sterns Eliot published The Waste Land (1922), the poem that shook the staid world of Anglo-Saxon intellectuals. Eliot thought that the hope of the renaissance, after passing through the rationality of the Enlightenment and the utopia of the 19th century, was ending in a desert of “futility and desperation”. He saw the cause as culture loss. We have broken with our deepest traditions: literary, philosophical, spiritual; we have lost our humanities, our humanity [...] Eliot never lost his pessimism. But he balanced this realism with the hopefulness obvious in his later works, especially in Four Quartets, but hinted at in The Waste Land. He spoke of a turning; we may always turn away from chaos, turn back to our roots, “fare forward”, even “beyond”. In Four Quartets, he wished to ‘retune the delicate relation of the Eternal to the transient’“. The Spirituality of T.S. Eliot is Redmond’s gloss to Eliot’s most significant poems focusing on their mysticism. Drawing on Eliot’s literary, philosophical and religious heritage, Redmond offers us the most comprehensive study of the influential Anglo-American poet’s lifelong cultivation of mystic theology. More than another work of literary criticism, Redmond has attempted in this book to explain the poems’ meaning and to point out the relevant sources necessary to understand Eliot’s spiritual background. Walter Redmond (Chicago, 1933) is a distinguished researcher and professor of philosophy and theology. He has published hundreds of articles and dozens of books on logic and Novohispanic philosophy, theological philosophy, analytic philosophy and phenomenology in German, English, Spanish, and Latin, as well as taught in various countries in Europe and America. Redmond has also translated Edith Stein's works into English and Antonio Rubio’s works on logic into Spanish.
Four Quartets
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Author : Richard Brock
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-06
Four Quartets written by Richard Brock and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06 with Spirituality in literature categories.
Exploring the spiritual themes in one of the twentieth century's literary masterpieces, the reader is introduced to the complex religious and philosophical ideas which influenced T.S. Eliot's poem. On the fiftieth anniversary of Eliot's death, ancient and medieval thinkers are merged with interwar Europe and the twenty-first century technological world. The result is a compelling retelling of Eliot's journey of spiritual transformation.
T S Eliot And Mysticism
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Author : Paul Murray
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 1991-01-01
T S Eliot And Mysticism written by Paul Murray and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991-01-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
'At last, we have a study that tackles these questions, and does so with a wealth of learning, a poet's sensibility and a thorough theological literacy...Murray has given us a superb study.' Rowan Williams, Doctrine and Life 'His point of view is always that of someone practised in meditation, and his book is in consequence one of the half-dozen really valuable guides to Eliot's poetry.' Stephen Medcalf, Times Literary Supplement The story of the composition of Four Quartets, in relation to mysticism, constitutes one of the most interesting pages in modern literary history. T.S. Eliot drew his inspiration not only from the literature of orthodox Christian mysticism and from a variety of Hindu and Buddhist sources, but also from the literature of the occult, and from several unexpected and so far unacknowledged sources such as the 'mystical' symbolism of Shakespeare's later plays and the visionary poetry of Rudyard Kipling. But the primary concern of this study is not with sources as such, nor with an area somewhere behind the work, but rather with that point in Four Quartets where Eliot's own mystical attitude and his poetry unite and intersect.
The Spirituality Of T S Eliot
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Author : Walter Redmond
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
The Spirituality Of T S Eliot written by Walter Redmond and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Spirituality categories.
Meditating On Four Quartets
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Author : John E. Booty
language : en
Publisher: Forward Movement
Release Date : 2003-11
Meditating On Four Quartets written by John E. Booty and has been published by Forward Movement this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-11 with Poetry categories.
John E. Booty's definitive analysis of the spirituality of T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets is now back in print, in an updated edition by the author. Booty brings Eliot's enduring, haunting Quartets to life, and gives the reader a vivid understanding of one of the most powerful poetic works of the 20th century.
Why Read Four Quartets
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Author : Tom Brous
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2017-10-03
Why Read Four Quartets written by Tom Brous and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-03 with Religion categories.
Why Read Four Quartets? is offered to encourage readers unfamiliar with T. S. Eliot's masterpiece to "take up, read, and inwardly digest" these beautiful and sacred poems. Commentary is offered to hopefully make the poems more accessible to a general reader. Most critics and commentators do not seem to take Eliot's own spirituality seriously, or at least they don't choose to comment on it. Literary analysis is often emphasized to the exclusion of viewing the quartets in a personal or biographical manner. In sharp contrast to these typical studies, this book endeavors to show that the quartets, along with his earlier post-1927 poetry (Ariel Poems and Ash Wednesday), can be read as the story of Eliot's own mystical journey to the Divine.
Redeeming Time
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Author : Kenneth Paul Kramer
language : en
Publisher: Cowley Publications
Release Date : 2007-05-15
Redeeming Time written by Kenneth Paul Kramer and has been published by Cowley Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-05-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
This exploration of T. S. Eliot's last major poem, Four Quartets, examines the poem’s potential to transform readers’ faith journeys. Kramer shows that the power of Four Quartets is its ability to create a dynamic interaction between the poem and the reader that promotes a genuine connection with the natural world, with others, and with the Divine.
Four Quartets
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Author : Thomas Stearns Eliot
language : en
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
Release Date : 1943
Four Quartets written by Thomas Stearns Eliot and has been published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1943 with Fiction categories.
Religion And Myth In T S Eliot S Poetry
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Author : Michael Bell
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2016-08-17
Religion And Myth In T S Eliot S Poetry written by Michael Bell and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-17 with Religion categories.
T.S. Eliot was arguably the most important poet of the twentieth century. Nonetheless, there remains much scope for reconsidering the content, form and expressive nature of Eliot’s religious poetry, and this edited collection pays particular attention to the multivalent spiritual dimensions of his popular poems, such as ‘The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock’, ‘The Waste Land’, ‘Journey of the Magi’, ‘The Hollow Men’, and ‘Choruses’ from The Rock. Eliot’s sustained popularity is an intriguing cultural phenomenon, given that the religious voice of Eliot’s poetry is frequently antagonistic towards the ‘unchurched’ or secular reader: ‘You! Hypocrite lecteur!’ This said, Eliot’s spiritual development was not a logical matter and his devotional poetry is rarely didactic. The volume presents a rich and powerful range of essays by leading and emerging T.S. Eliot and literary modernist scholars, considering the doctrinal, religious, humanist, mythic and secular aspects of Eliot’s poetry: Anglo-Catholic belief (Barry Spurr), the integration of doctrine and poetry (Tony Sharpe), the modernist mythopoeia of Four Quartets (Michael Bell), the ‘felt significance’ of religious poetry (Andy Mousley), ennui as a modern evil (Scott Freer), Eliot’s pre-conversion encounter with ‘modernist theology’ (Joanna Rzepa), Eliot’s ‘religious agrarianism’ (Jeremy Diaper), the maternal allegory of Ash Wednesday (Matthew Geary), and an autobiographical reading of religious conversion inspired by Eliot in a secular age (Lynda Kong). This book is a timely addition to the ‘return of religion’ in modernist studies in the light of renewed interest in T.S. Eliot scholarship.
Spiritual Meaning And The Prophetic Mode In T S Eliot S Four Quartets
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Author : Megan Kimberly Von Bergen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
Spiritual Meaning And The Prophetic Mode In T S Eliot S Four Quartets written by Megan Kimberly Von Bergen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with categories.
Among the body of criticism on T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets, critics such as Cleo McNelly Kearns and Alireza Farahbakhsh have recently interpreted the poet's "intolerable wrestle / With words and meanings" (EC II) in light of deconstructionist theory. Although the poetry does recognize the difficulty of speaking about spiritual experience, it does not embrace the resulting linguistic miscommunication. In fact, the poems resist such a move, identifying the spiritual danger of such miscommunication; instead, they seek to overcome these difficulties and accurately communicate spiritual experience - an aim achieved in the context of biblical prophecy. Louis Martz argues that the Quartets are, in fact, not prophetic; however, he defines prophecy in terms of its social interests, rather than in terms of the interest in the human-divine relationship that characterizes both biblical tradition and Eliot's poetry. I want to argue that reading the Quartets in the context of biblical prophecy, filtered through mystical tradition, explains their ability to transcend linguistic difficulty and explore spiritual experience in human language. In biblical tradition, the prophets overcome linguistic difficulty through a direct encounter with God, which purifies language of error and equips them to speak of divine reality. In Eliot's Quartets, the poetry undergoes a similar purifying experience meant to replace linguistic error with a meaningful exploration of spiritual experience. For the Quartets, linguistic purification is accomplished by means of the mystical via negativa. Appropriating images associated with the via negativa, the poetry denies language tied to direct perception of spiritual reality and adopts instead a language that conveys such experience through unfamiliar words and images. In that language, the poetry is purified of its errors and made capable of exploring the human relationship with God. A poetry identified with the Incarnation, this solution communicates in human language the reality of spiritual experience. In this communication, the poetry at last explores spiritual experience in a way freed of miscommunication and meaningful for the audience, thereby fulfilling its prophetic aims.