Four Quartets
Four Quartets

Author: T. S. Eliot

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2014-03-10

Total Pages: 65

ISBN-13: 0547539703

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The last major verse written by Nobel laureate T. S. Eliot, considered by Eliot himself to be his finest work Four Quartets is a rich composition that expands the spiritual vision introduced in “The Waste Land.” Here, in four linked poems (“Burnt Norton,” “East Coker,” “The Dry Salvages,” and “Little Gidding”), spiritual, philosophical, and personal themes emerge through symbolic allusions and literary and religious references from both Eastern and Western thought. It is the culminating achievement by a man considered the greatest poet of the twentieth century and one of the seminal figures in the evolution of modernism.

Dove Descending
Dove Descending

Author: Thomas Howard

Publisher: Sapienta Classics

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 156

ISBN-13:

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T.S. Eliot is widely considered the most important and most influential poet of the 20th century. Many consider Four Quartets to be the finest of his poems and his greatest achievement. In this masterful journey into the beauties and depths of Eliot's masterpiece, the bestselling author, professor and critic Thomas Howard unravels the complexities of the sublime poem with such adept adroitness that even its most difficult passages spring to life. During his long years as a professor teaching English and Literature, Howard taught this poem often, and developed what he calls "a reading" approach to the concepts of this masterpiee to render its meaning more lucid for the reader. Therefore, this is not a "scholarly" work, but rather the brilliant insights of a master teacher and writer whose understanding of this profound poem and his deep love for the writing of Eliot are shared here for the great benefit of the reader.

Annotations to T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets
Annotations to T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets

Author: Herman Servotte

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2010-08-02

Total Pages: 64

ISBN-13: 1450240682

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This book of annotations to Four Quartets provides unparalleled, page by page insights into the thoughts and background material behind the poem. It will be a unique asset for any reader who wants help in navigating the extraordinary complexities of T.S. Eliots final masterpiece. Carol Simpson Stern, Professor, Department of Performance Studies and Poetry, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois

Big Sleep Boogie
Big Sleep Boogie

Author: Bill Kerwin

Publisher:

Published: 2019-10-17

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 9781698850221

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Archer Blackwood, P.I. encounters a new client next to his office, right in the middle of Big Sleep Cemetery. Young Maria Mortabella, who has just crossed the border into the land of the dead, is convinced her sister must have been murdered by the same three men who killed her, execution style, and dumped her body in the graveyard. Yet she can't find her beloved Cecilia anywhere.Archer Blackwood, P.I.--Private Immigrationist--is a specialist in helping immigrants (the recently deceased) adapt to the challenges and perils of a new environment. Blackwood knows Big Sleep City (which looks like a retro version of Columbus, Ohio): he has walked its mean streets, and knows how to confront its vices, its villains, and its dangers. If anyone can find Maria's missing sister, Archer Blackwood can.

The Event
The Event

Author: Ilai Rowner

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 379

ISBN-13: 0803286481

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What is an event? From a philosophical perspective, events are irregular occurrences--moments of change and interruption--categorized by human perception, language, and thought. While philosophers have pored over the subject of events extensively in recent years, The Event: Literature and Theory seeks to ground it: What is literature's approach to the event? How does literature produce and give testimony to events? Ilai Rowner's study not only revisits some of the most important thinkers of our time, including Maurice Blanchot, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, and Martin Heidegger, it also develops a critical approach to literature that questions the meaning of the literary event through examinations of literary works by Marcel Proust, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, and T. S. Eliot. Rowner offers a new method of thinking about the particular characteristics of the event within literary works and defines the creative value of literature as the aspiration toward the un-happening within the happening. In this study the experience of literature--as an act of both writing and reading--becomes the struggle to capture the excessive movement of the event while also revealing the creative energy within that work of literature.

Poems
Poems

Author: Thomas Stearns Eliot

Publisher:

Published: 1920

Total Pages: 72

ISBN-13:

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A collection of poems, some of which had first appeared in Poetry, Blas, Others, The Little Review, and Arts and Letters.

Deacons and the Church
Deacons and the Church

Author: Owen F. Cummings

Publisher: Paulist Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 9780809142422

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"Deacons and the Church presents a popular narrative history of the Order of the Diaconate in the Catholic Church from its dawn on the biblical scene in the Acts of the Apostles (with Saints Stephen and Philip), through the "golden age" of deacons in the fifth century. With the emergence of the "cultic priesthood," the diaconate as a unique and discrete member of the clergy declined into a transitional role - but never disappeared. Indeed, Dr. Cummings points out that the most popular saint (after Mary), Francis of Assisi, was a deacon - as were Saints Lawrence and Ephrem, all of whom are offered here as models of "Deacons for Deacons."" "The Second Vatican Council restored the Order of Deacon to a "full and permanent" membership in the clergy, along with priests and bishops. Now thirty thousand deacons serve the Church throughout the world and remain the fastest-growing clerical rank within the Latin Church. Deacon Cummings reflects on how this surge in the membership of the Order of Deacons will affect the Church in the years to come."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Parable and Paradox
Parable and Paradox

Author: Malcolm Guite

Publisher: Canterbury Press

Published: 2016-05-27

Total Pages: 96

ISBN-13: 1848258593

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Since the publication of the bestselling Sounding the Seasons, Malcolm Guite has repeatedly been asked for more sonnets. This new collection offers a sequence of 50 sonnets that focus on many passages in the Gospels: the Beatitudes, parables and miracles, teachings on the Kingdom, and the ‘hard sayings’ - Jesus’ challenging demands with which we wrestle. In addition this collection includes: •A sequence of seven sonnets on 'The Wilderness', exploring mysterious stories of divine encounter such as Jacob’s wrestling with the angel. •Poetic reflections on music, hospitality and ecology. •Seven short poems celebrating the days of creation. •A biblical index pairing the poems with scripture readings for use in worship.