God how one's past words come back to haunt one. I don't even generally
agree with myself anymore. I'd have to reread what I said on that, but like
TSE I can't bear to reread myself.
I am afraid it is out of print. You may need to use a library copy and
maybe xerox anything that seems useful.
Best,
Nancy
Date sent: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 23:02:27 +0200
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Subject: Re: 4Q, BN and the bird
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>Von: Rickard A Parker <[log in to unmask]>
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>Betreff: Re: 4Q, BN and the bird
>Datum: Die, 20. Mär 2001 19:26 Uhr
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>A multi-page web site:
> Time, Eternity, and Immortality in T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets
> Terry L. Fairchild
> http://www.mum.edu/msvs/9199terry.html
>
>Regards,
> Rick Parker
Thanks Rick,
here's an excerpt from the aforementioned pages on TDS:
*Such critics as Nancy Gish read Eliot's river as a destructive force only
(1981, p. 108), a view inconsistent with Eliot's typical symbolic
patterning. As we have continuously seen, Eliot's chief symbols, the rose,
the circle, dancing, fire, all possess dual [sometimes: multiple / GJ]
characteristics-time and the timeless, permanent and impermanent, sublime
and profane, creative and destructive. However, words such as
"implacable," "destroyer," "unhonored, [and] unpropitiated / By
worshippers of the machine" seem initially to confirm Gish's pessimistic
view. But the river is not simply destructive; untamed and elemental, it
is also the antithesis of "the dwellers in the city" who have forgotten
the primal font from which all life springs.*
Dear Nancy,
I'm making one last effort with my bookseller to obtain
*Time in the Poetry of T.S. Eliot* (London, Macmillan, 1981)
Cheers,
G.
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