Four Quartets
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Four Quartets is a sequence of four interlinked poems by T. S. Eliot that meditates on time, spirituality, and human experience, and is considered one of his greatest poetic achievements.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Four Quartets canonical | 19 |
| The Dry Salvages | 4 |
| The Dry Salvages (poem) | 2 |
| collected volume Four Quartets | 1 |
| poem "East Coker" | 1 |
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Target entity: Four Quartets Context triple: [T. S. Eliot, notableWork, Four Quartets]
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A.
The Waste Land
The Waste Land is a landmark modernist poem by T. S. Eliot that portrays the spiritual desolation and fragmentation of post–World War I Western society through a dense collage of voices, allusions, and shifting perspectives.
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B.
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul is a comic fantasy detective novel by Douglas Adams featuring the eccentric holistic detective Dirk Gently as he becomes entangled with Norse gods and bizarre supernatural events in modern-day London.
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C.
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage is a long narrative poem by Lord Byron that helped establish his fame and popularized the brooding, romantic "Byronic hero" in early 19th-century literature.
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D.
Harrow Songs
Harrow Songs are a celebrated collection of traditional school songs closely associated with the culture and history of Harrow School in England.
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E.
Leaves of Grass
Leaves of Grass is Walt Whitman’s groundbreaking poetry collection that celebrates the individual, democracy, and the American experience in a free-verse style.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Four Quartets Target entity description: Four Quartets is a sequence of four interlinked poems by T. S. Eliot that meditates on time, spirituality, and human experience, and is considered one of his greatest poetic achievements.
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A.
The Waste Land
The Waste Land is a landmark modernist poem by T. S. Eliot that portrays the spiritual desolation and fragmentation of post–World War I Western society through a dense collage of voices, allusions, and shifting perspectives.
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B.
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul is a comic fantasy detective novel by Douglas Adams featuring the eccentric holistic detective Dirk Gently as he becomes entangled with Norse gods and bizarre supernatural events in modern-day London.
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C.
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage is a long narrative poem by Lord Byron that helped establish his fame and popularized the brooding, romantic "Byronic hero" in early 19th-century literature.
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D.
Harrow Songs
Harrow Songs are a celebrated collection of traditional school songs closely associated with the culture and history of Harrow School in England.
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E.
Leaves of Grass
Leaves of Grass is Walt Whitman’s groundbreaking poetry collection that celebrates the individual, democracy, and the American experience in a free-verse style.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
long poem
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modernist poem ⓘ poetry collection ⓘ |
| author | T. S. Eliot ⓘ |
| completionYear | 1942 ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| criticalReputation |
considered a masterpiece of 20th-century English poetry
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considered one of T. S. Eliot's greatest works ⓘ |
| firstPartPublicationYear | 1936 ⓘ |
| form | sequence of four poems ⓘ |
| genre |
modernist poetry
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philosophical poetry ⓘ religious poetry ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
audio recordings by T. S. Eliot
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radio broadcasts ⓘ stage readings ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Burnt Norton
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East Coker ⓘ Little Gidding ⓘ Four Quartets self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
The Dry Salvages
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| influencedBy |
Christian mysticism
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Dante Alighieri ⓘ Heraclitus ⓘ Hindu philosophy ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Modernism ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
Christian theology
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eternity ⓘ history ⓘ human experience ⓘ memory ⓘ redemption ⓘ spirituality ⓘ suffering ⓘ time ⓘ |
| meter | mixed verse and prose-like rhythms ⓘ |
| notableLine |
All shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well.
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In my beginning is my end. ⓘ In my end is my beginning. ⓘ The still point of the turning world. ⓘ |
| numberOfParts | 4 ⓘ |
| publicationPeriod | 1936–1942 ⓘ |
| publisher | Faber and Faber ⓘ |
| references | Julian of Norwich ⓘ |
| religiousTradition | Anglo-Catholicism ⓘ |
| setting |
Burnt Norton, Gloucestershire, England
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East Coker ⓘ
surface form:
East Coker, Somerset, England
Little Gidding, Cambridgeshire, England ⓘ The Dry Salvages, Massachusetts, United States ⓘ |
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