Reviews - Quatre Quatuors | The StoryGraph

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I adore this. Truly, this is the best poetry that I have read, and something that I have returned to with regularity for over twenty years now at this point, and which still brings me to tears. Familiarity only makes it dearer.

smjones9123's review against another edition

4.0

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

rihala's review against another edition

emotional reflective

O dark dark dark. They all go into the dark

An evolution from the Waste Land and Prufrock of course, and one I'm not sure if I welcome. I'll return to them, especially Burnt Norton and East Coker but...I don't know, I don't know. There are parts where the love shines through and times where it was just disagreeable. Religion was not entirely unconscious.

Still, deserves a reread with a guide.

jonfaith's review against another edition

4.0

We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.

Eliot appears to be brooding on the elusive nature of time. This meditation doesn't shirk the inviolability of biological time but rather impales itself as an aesthetic act in the ouroboros of our conscious entanglement.

caomhghin's review against another edition

5.0

This is possibly the first time I have made an in-depth reading (together with some commentaries). This time the overall structure is more apparent, especially the use of leit motifs and themes while the beauty of much of the verse is as superb as ever. It is quite remarkable how Eliot turns what you would expect to be prose into poetry.

ceciliacb's review against another edition

5.0

I've been writing papers on Little Gidding all semester and let me tell you: it's so fantastic and rich and layered and I love it. Do yourself a favor and go read it.