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


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>Von: Rickard A Parker <[log in to unmask]>
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>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.