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    Annotations to T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets
    Annotations to T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets
    Annotations to T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets
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    Annotations to T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets

    By Herman Servotte and Ethel Grene

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    This book of annotations to Four Quartets provides unparalleled, page by page insights into the thoughts and background material behind the poem. It will be a unique asset for any reader who wants help in navigating the extraordinary complexities of T.S. Eliots final masterpiece.

    Carol Simpson Stern, Professor, Department of Performance Studies and Poetry, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateAug 2, 2010
    ISBN9781450240680
    Annotations to T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets
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    Herman Servotte

    Ethel Grene has now brought Herman Servotte’s annotations to Four Quartets into our English-speaking world, editing and augmenting them as they match each page of the poem. She is also the co-translator with Martijn Zwart of the book Dutch Poetry in Translation: Kaleidoscope, a bilingual collection of poems from medieval to modern times.

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      Annotations to T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets - Herman Servotte

      ANNOTATIONS to

      T. S. ELIOT’S FOUR QUARTETS

      by

      Herman Servotte / Ethel Grene

      Copyright © 2010 by Ethel Grene

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      ISBN: 978-1-4502-4067-3 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4502-4068-0 (ebook)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2010909681

      iUniverse rev. date: 07/20/2010

      Contents

      PREFACE

      HERAKLEITOS TRANSLATIONS

      BURNT NORTON

      EAST COKER

      THE DRY SALVAGES

      LITTLE GIDDING

      BIBLIOGRAPHY

      To my sons, Andrew and Gregory

      with loving thanks,

      beyond words.

                        Ethel Grene

      ANNOTATIONS to T.S. ELIOT’S FOUR QUARTETS

      PREFACE

      ‘Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal… The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different from that from which it was torn…’

      T.S. Eliot’s essay on Philip Massinger

      Times Literary Supplement, May 27, 1920

      Readers sometimes find the Four Quartets baffling, the beauty of the poetry overshadowed for them by the puzzling nature of the text. Eliot’s extraordinary mind was a storehouse of cultural history, on which he drew freely and without attribution, to write in just the way that he wanted.

      It can help to know something about the background voices of writers whose work he had in mind as he wrote. In 1974 Herman Servotte, a Belgian professor of English Literature, published an edition of the Four Quartets with the original English and his Dutch translation on facing pages; and with annotations (in Dutch) which I found invaluable.¹ These notes of mine are based on his, with his kind permission. I have edited them for this format, added a few of my own-marked [EG]-and also used the work of some other commentators, and especially Helen Gardner’s The Composition of Four Quartets, for further source material.

      Ethel Grene

      Herman Servotte also wrote extensive introductory and final essays about T. S. Eliot and his work,

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