Poetry and Exile: T. S. Eliot, ’Four Quartets’ - Professor Belinda Jack

Professor Belinda Jack examines the power and impact of T.S. Eliot’s works ’The Four Quartets’: These poems retain a stubborn opacity and no interpretation is ever wholly satisfactory. The difficulty of Eliot’s poetry is partly a function of the poems’ dense allusions to so much other poetry. But by exploring the idea of exile in relation to locality and the idea of space more abstractly, the shape of Four Quartets as des