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The title Four Quartets connects to music, which appears also in Eliot's poems "Preludes", "Rhapsody on a Windy Night", and "A Song for Simeon" along with a 1942 lecture called "The Music of Poetry". Some critics have suggested that there were various classical works that Eliot focused on while writing the pieces. [ 16 ]
Thomas Stearns Eliot OM (26 September 1888 – 4 January 1965) was a poet, essayist and playwright. [1] He was a leading figure in English-language Modernist poetry where he reinvigorated the art through his use of language, writing style, and verse structure.
The poem's structure was heavily influenced by Eliot's extensive reading of Dante Alighieri [4] and makes several references to the Bible and other literary works—including William Shakespeare's plays Henry IV Part II, Twelfth Night, and Hamlet; the poetry of 17th-century metaphysical poet Andrew Marvell; and the 19th-century French ...
First edition (publ. Faber & Faber) Ash Wednesday (sometimes Ash-Wednesday) is a long poem written by T. S. Eliot during his 1927 conversion to Anglicanism.Published in 1930, the poem deals with the struggle that ensues when one who has lacked faith in the past strives to move towards God.
The following is a list of books of poetry by T. S. Eliot arranged chronologically by first edition. [Note 1] Some of Eliot's poems were first published in booklet or pamphlet format (such as his Ariel poems.)
Cats is based on a 1939 book of poems by T. S. Eliot, Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, and the lyrics for "Memory" were adapted from Eliot's poems "Rhapsody on a Windy Night" and "Preludes" by the musical's director Trevor Nunn. [10]
T. S. Eliot: A Bibliography (A Revised and Extended Edition) Harcourt, Brace & World, New York, 1969; Hugh Kenner, The Invisible Poet: T. S. Eliot; Grover Smith, T. S. Eliot's Poetry and Plays: A Study in Sources and Meaning; B.C Southam, A Guide to The Selected Poems of T. S. Eliot; George Williamson, A Readers Guide to T. S. Eliot: A Poem by ...
T. S. Eliot in 1934. Burnt Norton is the first poem of T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets.He created it while working on his play Murder in the Cathedral, and it was first published in his Collected Poems 1909–1935 (1936).