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Why You Should Read the Four Quartets Right Now

Why Eliot's masterpiece is timely

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O. Alan Noble
Dec 06, 2024
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T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets is considered by many scholars to be his masterpiece. While The Waste Land has the honor of being more historically significant poem, the Four Quartets surpasses it in beauty, complexity, intensity, and (most relevant to us in this article) hope. It was Eliot’s last great poem, but his best.…

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