T. S. Eliot and the Ideology of Four Quartets

By: John Xiros Cooper

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Criticism of Eliot has ignored the public dimension of his life and work. His poetry is often seen as the private record of an internal spiritual struggle. Professor Cooper shows how Eliot deliberately addressed a North Atlantic 'mandarinate' fearful of social disintegration during the politically turbulent 1930s. Almost immediately following publication, Four Quartets was accorded canonical status as a work that promised a personal harmony divorced from the painful disharmonies of the emerging postwar world. Cooper connects Eliot's careers as banker, director and editor to a much wider cultural agenda. He aimed to reinforce established social structures during a period of painful political transition. This powerful and original study re-establishes the public context in which Eliot's work was received and understood. It will become an essential reference work for all interested in a wider understanding of Eliot and of Anglo-American cultural relations.

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"...Cooper impressively places Eliot in a relation to his readers and the complexities of the world around him that is too rarely considered in a great deal of scholarship on this poet. ...much of value here." Colin A. Clarke, American Studies International

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Published: 14th December 1995

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Ash-Wednesday and the transition to the late candour
Provisional delusions: crisis among the mandarins
The society of the mandarin verse play
Representing Four Quartets: the canonizers at work
Four Quartets: the poem proper
Burnt children
Rehearsing renunciation
Escape from history
White mythology: the comedy of manners in Natopolis
Notes
Index
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