Whirling World, Dancing Words: Further Echoes of Sir John Davies in T. S. Eliot

Perhaps the most rhetorically elaborate passage in T. S. Eliot is the opening paragraph of Ash Wednesday. The passage is not, however, the only example of Eliot's indebtedness to the dance-imagery of the amazingly coherent late-Elizabethan master his essay strove to retrieve from neglect for it...

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Published in:Notes and queries 2007-06, Vol.54 (2), p.164-167
Main Author: Schmidt, A. V. C.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Davies, John (1569-1626)
Eliot, Thomas Stearns (1888-1965)
Essays
Literary criticism
Poetry
Poets
Rhetoric
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Summary:Perhaps the most rhetorically elaborate passage in T. S. Eliot is the opening paragraph of Ash Wednesday. The passage is not, however, the only example of Eliot's indebtedness to the dance-imagery of the amazingly coherent late-Elizabethan master his essay strove to retrieve from neglect for it plays a significant thematic role in Four Quartets, undergoing various Daviesian permutations, cosmic, erotic and artistic. Schmidt discusses how the works of Sir John Davies attracts Eliot's attention.
ISSN:0029-3970
1471-6941
DOI:10.1093/notesj/gjm071