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“This is a subtle and penetrating study of the Four Quartets by a philosopher with a rare talent for literary analysis. The book has all the hallmarks for which Martin Warner’s work is deservedly acclaimed: seamless integration of the philosophical and the literary, insight informed by sound scholarship lightly worn, breadth of intellectual and cultural reference, thoroughness of analysis, and always agreeable lucidity of expression. The book begins with a helpful, informative account of the context, intellectual and personal, for Eliot’s mature work, not merely enumerating the influences. . . but explaining precisely how they shaped the poet’s mind. . . . the core of the book is an immensely detailed philosophical reading of the Four Quartets. This is a tour de force. Here Warner’s well-grounded knowledge of the philosophical and religious tradition makes him ideally placed to unpick from the inside the often opaque allusiveness of Eliot’s’ magnum opus. . . . This is a self-confident and bravura performance.”-Peter Lamarque
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