FIRE AND SPIRIT: SCRIPTURE'S SHAPING PRESENCE IN T.S. ELIOT'S FOUR QUARTETS
The predominant scriptural model for T S. Eliot's early works was apocalyptic. In Four Quartets the poet's embrace of the medieval tradition which informed his chosen anglo-catholicism produces a new language which finds its scriptural affinities elsewhere, notably in the rhetorical strate...
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2001
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Literature and theology
Year: 2001, Volume: 15, Issue: 1, Pages: 85-101 |
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| Summary: | The predominant scriptural model for T S. Eliot's early works was apocalyptic. In Four Quartets the poet's embrace of the medieval tradition which informed his chosen anglo-catholicism produces a new language which finds its scriptural affinities elsewhere, notably in the rhetorical strategies and significant motifs of gospel writing Meditation on moments of epiphany produces an awareness of pentecostal presence which requires and values language and associates itself with tradition. A new inflexion emphasises Incarnation, opposing the teleologies of progressivism or apo-calyptic with an equivalence of ‘now’ and ‘always’ The associated motifs of baptism, purgatory and Pentecost are interwoven in Four Quartets to form an argument which revalues the world, language and history |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Literature and theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/litthe/15.1.85 |