Modernism and World War II
‘Either you had no purpose’, Eliot writes in his wartime Little Gidding, ‘Or the purpose is beyond the end you figured / And is altered in fulfilment’. 2 The work of a poet concluding a career of unparalleled significance, Eliot’s Four Quartets speculate continually about what it would mean to m...
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Cambridge University Press
2013
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| Sumari: | ‘Either you had no purpose’, Eliot writes in his wartime Little Gidding,
‘Or the purpose is beyond the end you figured / And is altered in fulfilment’.
2 The work of a poet concluding a career of unparalleled significance,
Eliot’s Four Quartets speculate continually about what it would
mean to make a good end, where an end is an objective or a conclusion,
an intended destination or just a termination – and perhaps, but not
necessarily, both. So if I begin this book by saying that its subject is the
end of modernism, I mean ‘end’ in Eliot’s double sense: the end of
modernism signifies both its realisation and its dissolution |
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