Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Series Editor's Preface
- Introduction
- Acknowledgments
- Prufrock and Other Observations (1917)
- Poems (1919); Ara Vos Prec (1920); Poems (1920)
- The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism (1920, 1921)
- The Waste Land (1922)
- Homage to John Dryden (1924)
- Poems 1909–1925 (1925)
- For Lancelot Andrewes: Essays on Style and Order (1928, 1929)
- Dante (1929); Animula (1929); Marina (1930)
- Ash-Wednesday (1930)
- Selected Essays 1917–1932 (1932)
- Sweeney Agonistes (1932)
- The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism (1933)
- After Strange Gods: A Primer of Modern Heresy (1934)
- The Rock (1934)
- Murder in the Cathedral (1935)
- Collected Poems 1909–1935 (1936)
- The Family Reunion (1939)
- The Idea of a Christian Society (1939)
- East Coker (1940); Burnt Norton (1941); The Dry Salvages (1941); Little Gidding (1942); Four Quartets (1943)
- Notes Towards the Definition of Culture (1948, 1949)
- The Cocktail Party (1949, 1950)
- The Confidential Clerk (1954)
- The Elder Statesman (1959)
- Index
East Coker (1940); Burnt Norton (1941); The Dry Salvages (1941); Little Gidding (1942); Four Quartets (1943)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 March 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Series Editor's Preface
- Introduction
- Acknowledgments
- Prufrock and Other Observations (1917)
- Poems (1919); Ara Vos Prec (1920); Poems (1920)
- The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism (1920, 1921)
- The Waste Land (1922)
- Homage to John Dryden (1924)
- Poems 1909–1925 (1925)
- For Lancelot Andrewes: Essays on Style and Order (1928, 1929)
- Dante (1929); Animula (1929); Marina (1930)
- Ash-Wednesday (1930)
- Selected Essays 1917–1932 (1932)
- Sweeney Agonistes (1932)
- The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism (1933)
- After Strange Gods: A Primer of Modern Heresy (1934)
- The Rock (1934)
- Murder in the Cathedral (1935)
- Collected Poems 1909–1935 (1936)
- The Family Reunion (1939)
- The Idea of a Christian Society (1939)
- East Coker (1940); Burnt Norton (1941); The Dry Salvages (1941); Little Gidding (1942); Four Quartets (1943)
- Notes Towards the Definition of Culture (1948, 1949)
- The Cocktail Party (1949, 1950)
- The Confidential Clerk (1954)
- The Elder Statesman (1959)
- Index
Summary
*G. W. Stonier.
"Mr. Eliot’s New Poem."
New Statesman 20 (14
September 1940), 267–68.
[Review of "East Coker"]
It is five years since the publication of Mr. Eliot's last poem—a period occupied by criticism, two plays and a volume of light verse—but “East Coker” takes us back to “Burnt Norton,” in something more than title, as though scarcely a day had passed. Or rather, since Mr. Eliot is not a writer who repeats himself, it would be better to say that we resume from the earlier point. There is a similar cluster of experience: problems of time and eternity clutched at from the sliding second; the return to country scenes in childhood—a moment is held and then let go with a gesture of resignation; permanence sought in solitude and in art hung like a Chinese vase in time; the desire to escape from a twilit consciousness into bright daylight or darkness; the struggle to fix ever-shifting experiences with words which also break and slip. No need to remark, at this time of day, that the expression, the amalgamation of such attitudes is sharp and poignant, as final as Mr. Eliot can make it; or that the poem carries an authority which marks the work of no other living poet except Claudel. This authority has been compared more than once to that of Arnold, but it seems to me even more powerful and exclusive.
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- T. S. EliotThe Contemporary Reviews, pp. 427 - 496Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2004
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