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... Little Gidding : The brief sun flames the ice , on pond and ditches , In windless cold that is the heart's heat . Clearly , the lines on regret for the past , and the futility of regret , conceived for the drama ( though surely they ...
... Little Gidding : The brief sun flames the ice , on pond and ditches , In windless cold that is the heart's heat . Clearly , the lines on regret for the past , and the futility of regret , conceived for the drama ( though surely they ...
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... Little Gidding is in some ways the most fascinating of all . An invocation to the Holy Ghost , the kernel of the whole Quartet , had been in Eliot's mind from the first , as his jotted manuscript shows . This begins ' Winter Scene . May ...
... Little Gidding is in some ways the most fascinating of all . An invocation to the Holy Ghost , the kernel of the whole Quartet , had been in Eliot's mind from the first , as his jotted manuscript shows . This begins ' Winter Scene . May ...
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... Little Gidding , Essays in Criticism , 1975. Entitled ' Charybde et Scylla ' , it appeared in the Annales du Centre Universitaire Mediterranean , Nice 1951-2 . Helen Gardner : The Art of T. S. Eliot , 1949 , and The Composition of the ...
... Little Gidding , Essays in Criticism , 1975. Entitled ' Charybde et Scylla ' , it appeared in the Annales du Centre Universitaire Mediterranean , Nice 1951-2 . Helen Gardner : The Art of T. S. Eliot , 1949 , and The Composition of the ...
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