Eliot Four Quartets

Even beyond the intellectual and argumentative use of words for scientific or analytic propositions, there is a need to be sensitive to their values and appropriateness for the matter on hand. Again T. S. Eliot (Four Quartets, Burnt Norton, lines 149-58) says,... 

T.S.Eliot, Four Quartets/ in The Complete Poems and Plays, New York, Harcourt, Brace, 1952, QI. 

The four elements of antiquity perfuse the history of Western culture. Shakespeare s Lear runs amok in the stormy rain, the rushing air, and the oak-cleaving thunderbolts of fire, nature s fretful elements . Two of his sonnets are paired in celebration of the quartet sea and land... so much of earth and water wrought , and slight air and purging fire . Literary tradition has continued to uphold the four ancient elements, which supply the organizing principle of T. S. Eliot s Quartets. 

T. S. Eliot. Little Gidding, in Four Quartets (New York, 1943). The relationship of ends and beginnings is a recurrent theme in Four Quartets. 

From T. S. Eliot, Little Gidding , in Four Quartets [reprinted in The Norton Anthology of English Literature Vol. 2, 4th ed. (Gen. Ed. M. H. Abrams), W. W. Norton Co., New York, 1979], (The author wishes to thank Ms. Julia A. Rottman of the Department of English, University of Virginia for finding this reference.)... 

Eliot, T. S. (1943). Little Gidding, Part V./n Four Quartets, Harcourt, Brace and Co., New York. 

Reviewing the contents of Volume III brings to mind two well-respected names in the pantheon of intellectual activity, ability and agility immediately. The first is the poet, T. S. Eliot, who wrote near the end of the last part of his multi-page, multi-part poem, Four Quartets , in the poem entitled The Little Gidding , the following lines ... 

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