T.S. Eliot and the Fulfillment of Christian Poetics

G. Douglas Atkins is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Kansas, USA, where he taught for 44 years. He is the author of 20 books and the co-editor of 3, covering wide range of topics, including literature and religion, literary theory, eighteenth-century studies, pedagogy, and the essay.

1. Four Quartets: Simulacrum of Being 2. Burnt Norton: "The ancient rhyme in a new verse": "Only through time time is conquered" 3. East Coker: "Mixing Memory and Desire": Lyrical Response and the Fear "Of belonging to another, or to others, or to God" 4. The Dry Salvages: Many Voices, Many Gods 5. The Dry Salvages (Continued): Four Quartets and the Work in the Word: What the Word Does 6. Little Gidding: Coming This Way, Coming Closer: Commonality, Communication, Community, and Communion, or What's Being Done in What's Being Said 7. Little Gidding (Continued): The Pattern in the Movement, the Doing in the Speaking