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Dove Descending: A Journey into T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets.(Book review)

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From: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and PublicLife
Date: 20070101
Author:Bove, Robert

DOVE DESCENDING: A JOURNEY INTO T.S. ELIOT'S FOUR QUARTETS by THOMAS HOWARD Ignatius, 148 pages, $14.95

This book deserves wide circulation among devotees of both T.S. Eliot and Thomas Howard--for Howard makes a powerful case that Eliot's Four Quartets is, in fact, the central poem of our time.

Many students have been able to wrap their minds around Eliot's early work. The meaning and imagery of "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," "The Hollow Men," even "The Wasteland" yield, without too much difficulty, to youthful study. Eliot's later work is a different matter, both ...

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