Four Quartets

Four Quartets
a group of four poems by T S Eliot, Burnt Norton (1935), East Coker (1940), The Dry Salvages (1941) and Little Gidding (1942). The poems contain Christian religious messages, and deal with themes such as time, nature, history and human experience. The titles refer to places that had a special meaning in Eliot’s life or his Christian beliefs.

* * *


Universalium. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Нужен реферат?

Look at other dictionaries:

  • Four Quartets — [Four Quartets] a group of four poems by T S Eliot, Burnt Norton (1935), East Coker (1940), The Dry Salvages (1941) and Little Gidding (1942). The poems contain Christian religious messages, and deal with themes such as time, nature, history and… …   Useful english dictionary

  • Four Quartets — 1st US edition (publ. Harcourt) Four Quartets is a set of four poems written by T. S. Eliot that were published individually over a six year period. The first poem, Burnt Norton , was written and published with a collection of his early works… …   Wikipedia

  • Four Harmonizers — is a Barbershop quartet that won the 1943 SPEBSQSA international competition.This Chicago quartet also competed in the 1941 and 1942 national contests of the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barbershop Quartet Singing in America …   Wikipedia

  • quartets — quar·tet || kwÉ”r tet /kwɔː tet n. group of four; musical composition for four performers …   English contemporary dictionary

  • String Quartets, Op. 76 (Haydn) — Joseph Haydn s string quartets, Op. 76 were composed in 1796 or 1797 and dedicated to the Hungarian Count Joseph Erdödy. The six quartets are the last complete set that Haydn composed. At the time of the commission, Haydn was employed at the… …   Wikipedia

  • Haydn Quartets (Mozart) — The Haydn Quartets by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart are a set of six string quartets published in 1785 in Vienna, dedicated to the composer Joseph Haydn. They are considered to be the pinnacle of Classical string quartet writing, containing some of… …   Wikipedia

  • String quartets (Schoenberg) — The Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg published four string quartets, distributed over his lifetime. These were the String Quartet No. 1 in D minor, Op. 7 (1905), String Quartet No. 2 in F sharp minor, Op. 10 (1908), String Quartet No. 3, Op.… …   Wikipedia

  • String Quartets 1–3 — Infobox Album Name = String Quartets 1 3 Type = studio Longtype = Artist = Michael Nyman and Balanescu Quartet Cover size = 200 Caption = art by Paul Richards clockwise from top left: Balanescu, Musker, Hinnigan, Carney Released = June 14, 1991… …   Wikipedia

  • Milanese Quartets (Mozart) — The six string quartets, K. 155 160, were composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in late 1772 and early 1773. Because they were composed in Milan while he was working on his opera Lucio Silla, they are popularly known as the Milanese Quartets.… …   Wikipedia

  • String Quartet in Four Parts — is a string quartet by John Cage, composed in 1950. It was one of the last works Cage wrote that were not entirely aleatoric. Like Sonatas and Interludes for prepared piano (1946 8) and the ballet The Seasons (1947), this work explores ideas from …   Wikipedia

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”