The Child in the Tree: A Study of the Cosmological Tree in Christian Tradition
In the first of T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets, ‘Burnt Norton,' appear the following lines: Quick, said the bird, find them, find them, Round the corner. Through the first gate, Into our first world, shall we follow The deception of the thrush? Into our first world. …………… Go, said the bird, f...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
1954
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Traditio
Year: 1954, Volume: 10, Pages: 323-371 |
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| Summary: | In the first of T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets, ‘Burnt Norton,' appear the following lines: Quick, said the bird, find them, find them, Round the corner. Through the first gate, Into our first world, shall we follow The deception of the thrush? Into our first world. …………… Go, said the bird, for the leaves were full of children, Hidden excitedly, containing laughter. Eliot returns to the image of the garden and the children in the last of this cycle, ‘Little Gidding‘: Through the unknown, remembered gate When the last of earth left to discover Is that which was the beginning; At the source of the longest river The voice of the hidden waterfall And the children in the apple-tree Not known, because not looked for But heard, half heard, in the stillness… All manner of thing shall be well When the tongues of flame are in-folded Into the crowned knot of fire And the fire and the rose are one. |
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| ISSN: | 2166-5508 |
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0362152900005900 |