Four Quartets
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What Is the Legacy of Four Quartets in Post 19 Forty Five Poetry?
The legacy of four quartets in post 19 forty five poetry? And it's there, and it's a very problematical one. You can see it at work in ordens, the sea and the mirror, but not necessarily to the best effect. But what eliot has done has invented a form, which is a new form, but has also exhausted it. Even by elliot himself. I mean this, he had 22 years to write, and he didn't write any more poetry of significance,. though he he did feel when he finished litte gidding, that he had come to the end of his of his poetic journey.
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