'That crown which he set on his lifetime's effort.' Ted Hughes Four Quartets is the culminating achievement of T. S. Eliot's career as a poet. This edition is based on the design made by Giovanni Mardersteig for his letterpress edition of 1960 and marks the seventy-fifth anniversary of its first publication in the UK by Faber & Faber in 1944. 'Throughout these poems there is also the invention of new rhythms, of unimagined possibilities in the movement of language . . . He is perhaps more original and inventive in rhythm ...
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'That crown which he set on his lifetime's effort.' Ted Hughes Four Quartets is the culminating achievement of T. S. Eliot's career as a poet. This edition is based on the design made by Giovanni Mardersteig for his letterpress edition of 1960 and marks the seventy-fifth anniversary of its first publication in the UK by Faber & Faber in 1944. 'Throughout these poems there is also the invention of new rhythms, of unimagined possibilities in the movement of language . . . He is perhaps more original and inventive in rhythm than any other poet in English.' Delmore Schwartz 'The most original contribution to poetry that has been made in our time.' Edwin Muir
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Add this copy of Four Quartets to cart. $54.95, very good condition, Sold by Sequitur Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Boonsboro, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1943 by Harcourt.
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Very Good. Size: 8x5x0; Hardcover and dust jacket. Tears to jacket with some loss. Dust jacket in protective mylar cover. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Gift inscription which reads "To Charlie, because she enabled me to understand Little Gidding, Thomas." The last major verse written by Nobel laureate T. S. Eliot. This book was considered by Eliot to be his finest work and led him to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Four Quartets is a composition that expands the spiritual vision introduced in The Waste Land in four linked poems: Burnt Norton, East Coker, The Dry Salvages, and Little Gidding.
Add this copy of Four Quartets to cart. $87.00, good condition, Sold by Found Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from AUSTIN, TX, UNITED STATES, published 1943 by Harcourt.
Add this copy of Four Quartets to cart. $117.00, good condition, Sold by Found Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from AUSTIN, TX, UNITED STATES, published 1943 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P.
Add this copy of Four Quartets to cart. $99.13, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1943 by Harcourt.
He drives my sister crazy because of his irrational syntax, but I am more into incantation than she is. I love these poems to distraction. It helps to read them aloud. I had downloaded a version off the internet, and it is a huge thrill now to have a decent copy, especially since I had forgotten how many lines from these poems had made it into my permanent library of catch-phrases, i.e., "the still point of the turning world."
Patrick N
Mar 10, 2011
calming
In a hectic argumentative deadline driven profession this invaluable book from this invaluable man is a gift and a friend.
