Four Quartets in the Light of the Chinese Jar

Four Quartets in the Light of the Chinese Jar discusses how Four Quartets should be explored afresh with a prosodic-philosophically sustained interdisciplinary and cross-cultural literary approach in ways as the often overlooked pivotal image of the Chinese jar so indicates in the great sequence; the pivotal image suggests the subtle but vital elixir from both "e;The 'shores of Asia and the Edgware Road' [which] are brought together as they had been brought together to The Waste Land."e; With a steady focus on the function words-mediated and phonemes-facilitated, and "e;autochthonously"e; void-suggesting verbal transformation, the book shows how the verbal transformation, especially of the cases with "e;parts of speech"e; in the live context, makes Four Quartets truly a "e;rhythmical creation of [meaningful] beauty"e;; it demonstrates how the meaningful poetic beauty culminates in a quintessential state or being of poetry not merely being "e;poetic"e; particularly in terms of its prosodically sustained philosophical tenets, which are often so serendipitously transformed into "e;virtuoso mastery of verbal music."e; As genuine poetry, the great sequence flows freely from inside out at once in accordance with and in spirt of any given rhythmical form or rhyming pattern.