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Burnt and Blossoming: Material Mysticism in Trilogy and Four Quartets
Get PDFThis paper brings two WWII poems into dialogue: H.D.'s Trilogy and Eliot's Four Quartets. Both poems express a creative response to the destruction of war. My reading of Trilogy suggests a material mysticism in which vision and renewal are situated within the natural world, rituals and bodily experience. Bringing this understanding of mysticism to bear on Four Quartets reveals tension between transcendence and materiality. For Eliot, redemption comes through time and location, while for H.D., redemption lies within material particularity. Four Quartets oscillates between an apophatic discourse that seeks to transcend desire and history and an emphasis on material particularities
Between Science and Religon: The Reaction to Scientific Naturalism in Late Victorian England. By Frank Miller Turner. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1974. x + 273 pp. $12.50.
Full text linkThe Apocalyptic Politics of Richard Price and Joseph Priestley: A Study in Late Eighteenth-Century English Republican Millennialism. By Jack FruchtmanJr Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 73, part 4. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1983. 125 pp. $10.00.
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Mark Twain's New Jerusalem: Prophecy in the Unpublished Essay âAbout Cities in the Sunâ
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