6/12/2023 0 Comments Four quartets first editionHe would like to be something of a popular entertainer, and be able to think his own thoughts behind a tragic or a comic mask. In a 1933 lecture he said “Every poet would like, I fancy, to be able to think that he had some direct social utility. He was long a critic and admirer of Elizabethan and Jacobean verse drama witness his allusions to Webster, Thomas Middleton, William Shakespeare and Thomas Kyd in The Waste Land. With the important exception of Four Quartets, Eliot directed much of his creative energies after Ash Wednesday to writing plays in verse, mostly comedies or plays with redemptive endings. Thomas Stearns Eliot OM (Septem– January 4, 1965) was an essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic and “one of the twentieth century’s major poets.”
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