![]() First printing, with “first American edition” on copyright page and faulty margins (due to unskilled war-time labor). ![]() “The most important poem… as many think, of the century” (Connolly 92). Critics on both sides of the Atlantic (the British edition followed in 1944) recognized the work “as an extraordinary tour de force… The sequence is the most elaborately and intricately shaped of all his poetry” (Ackroyd, 269-70). ![]() In the austere asceticism and confident dogmatism of these poems there is an impressive restatement of Christian belief in terms of contemporary poetic idiom and contemporary speculations about time” (Baugh et al., 1587). Rare first edition in book form (preceded only by separately published pamphlets of each poem) of Eliot’s “extraordinary tour de force,” an elaborate and eloquent exploration of religion and philosophy for the modern mind.Ī sequence of poems (first published as separate pamphlets) inspired by the natural cycle of four seasons and the ancient tradition of the four primal elements, Eliot’s Four Quartets “brings together the intricacies of modern technique and imagery and the simplicities of traditional lyric measures. Thin octavo, original black cloth, original dust jacket. ![]() ![]() “THE MOST IMPORTANT POEM, AS MANY THINK, OF THE CENTURY”: RARE FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM OF T.S. ![]()
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