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This book offers an exciting new approach to T.S. Eliot´s Four Quartets as it shows why it should be read both closely and in relation to Eliot´s other works, notably the poems The Waste Land, ´The Hollow Men,´ and Ash-Wednesday.

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The Critic as Medium Incarnation and the Art of Difficulty "Necessarye Coniunction": Eliot´s Intra-textual Words What Manner of Thing? On Pattern, Design, and Form Learning to Read the World Rhyming, or Two Wor(l)ds Much Like Each Other The Rose, the Fire, and Love, or God Devised the Torment, Preventing Us Everywhere "The hint half guessed, the gift half understood" and Purgation or Purification Not Coterminous but One

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"Reading T.S. Eliot is original - part creative, part scholarly - and, perhaps most importantly, human." - Tod Marshall, Professor of English, Gonzaga University, USA

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G. DOUGLAS ATKINS Professor of English at the University of Kansas, USA.

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