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Page 92
... T.S. Eliot , and W.H. Auden , have revived strong - stress metre . The versification of Pound's Cantos and Eliot's Four Quartets ( 1943 ) shows the vitality of the strong- stress , or , as they are often called , " native , " metres ...
... T.S. Eliot , and W.H. Auden , have revived strong - stress metre . The versification of Pound's Cantos and Eliot's Four Quartets ( 1943 ) shows the vitality of the strong- stress , or , as they are often called , " native , " metres ...
Page 93
... T.S. Eliot adjusted the blank - verse line to the emotionally charged , prophetic utterance of his persona , a spiritually arid old man : After such knowledge , what forgiveness ? Think now History has many cunning passages , contrived ...
... T.S. Eliot adjusted the blank - verse line to the emotionally charged , prophetic utterance of his persona , a spiritually arid old man : After such knowledge , what forgiveness ? Think now History has many cunning passages , contrived ...
Page 106
... T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets . The social and religious attitudes of the 18th - century age of Enlightenment could be expressed coolly and without ambiguity - and thus there was little need for spiritual allegory in the period's ...
... T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets . The social and religious attitudes of the 18th - century age of Enlightenment could be expressed coolly and without ambiguity - and thus there was little need for spiritual allegory in the period's ...
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