Tag: The Four Quartets

21st Century Lit, Twentieth Century Literature ENGL202, x Blogging

T.S.Eliot, literary modernism and the quest for meaning.

by michaelgriffith1 • August 22, 2020 • 1 Comment

T.S.Eliot, right from the start of his career was a passionate seeker for truth. This expressed itself in the metaphor of the journey which runs right through his whole work from “Prufrock” through to “The Four Quartets”. What truth was Eliot seeking? He was clearly living at a time of universal fragmentation, immediately after the…

4 Quartets, x Blogging

East Coker- Four Quartets Session 3

by michaelgriffith1 • November 20, 2019 • 1 Comment

Thank you all for your fabulous participation in our exploration of T.S. Eliot’s East Coker the poem that confirmed for him that he was actually in the process of writing the second of what would become The Four Quartets. Published on Good Friday 1940, just near the start of the Second World War, this poem…

4 Quartets

Little Gidding

by michaelgriffith1 • November 6, 2019 • 3 Comments

Hello All, this is the first in a series of four sessions held at the Aquinas Academy in Sydney on T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets. This is where you will find an audio recording of the event and the visual images that go with that event. This is also where I will post any useful links to…