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'All Shall Be Well' - the Conclusion of 'Little Gidding'

As previously discussed, poetry lies at one end of a spectrum: poems are by definition highly precise, usually much shorter, concentratio...

'Little Gidding' and History

Eliot continues the theme of reconciliation or transcendence of opposites introduced in the first two sections of Little Gidding in the p...

'Little Gidding''s Ghost

Eliot started writing 'Little Gidding' while recovering from an illness, completing the first draft in July 1941. But he was unhappy with...

The Opening of 'Little Gidding'

’Little Gidding’ by T. S. Eliot is a long poem which merits detailed study. It is the culmination of Eliot’s poetry in many ways: a crown...

The Words of T. S. Eliot

British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888 – 1965) was one of the twentieth century's...

The Insight of Keats

One of the main figures of the Romantic movement, John Keats (1795 – 1821) only managed to get into publication four years before his dea...

Larkin: An Overview

Philip Larkin has been called the other English poet laureate, though he is widely read in Europe and in the United States. Larkin’s idea...

Rossetti's 'The Woodspurge'

In September, 1848, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Everett Millais, William Holman Hunt and others founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, w...

Blake's Battle to Build Jerusalem

’Jerusalem’, by William Blake, from the preface of ‘Milton a Poem’, first printed in 1804, was originally called ‘And Did Those Feet in A...

Larkin's 'The Whitsun Weddings'

Poetry, like other forms of creative writing, is fiction, in the sense that it is ‘made up’: the poet puts words together not for any oth...

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