 | Peter Dronke - Literary Criticism - 1985 - 224 pages
...itself. Not of a kind adequate to the object—this is out of the question—but a uniqueness-in-variety. 'Every attempt / Is a wholly new start, and a different kind of failure'. Each image is partial, it perceives and records some part or aspect of a likeness, and thus falls short... | |
 | Wilga M. Rivers - Foreign Language Study - 1987 - 248 pages
...language, not necessarily an exercise in perfection. For everyone who tries to write poems it is a case of Trying to learn to use words, and every attempt Is a wholly new start, a different kind of failure . . . -TS Eliot So there is no reason to feel inadequate if masterpieces... | |
 | Reinhard Bendix - Social Science - 386 pages
...of this endeavor by the intellectuals is beautifully expressed in TS Eliot's East Coker: the poet is Trying to learn to use words, and every attempt Is...wholly new start, and a different kind of failure. . . . . .And so each venture Is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate. In Burnt Norton, Eliot... | |
 | Emory Elliott - History - 1988 - 1312 pages
...way, having had twenty years — Twenty years largely wasted, the years of Venire deux guerre s — Trying to learn to use words, and every attempt Is...wholly new start, and a different kind of failure This passage, which ends "For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business," is paralleled... | |
 | Emory Elliott - History - 1988 - 1312 pages
...might have been, and it contains some of Eliot's most personal poetry, as in the opening of Part V: So here I am, in the middle way, having had twenty...years — Twenty years largely wasted, the years of Cenire deux guerres — Trying to learn to use words, and every attempt Is a wholly new start, and... | |
 | Gerald A. Arbuckle - Religion - 1988 - 214 pages
...reflects on his own life between the wars and at first considers the twenty years wasted: So here 1 am, in the middle way, having had twenty years — Twenty years largely wasted. . ."' As we look back over the last twenty years since Vatican H, we also may consider them from the... | |
 | Martin Scofield - Literary Criticism - 1988 - 280 pages
...elements become even more marked in the later Quartets: in the direct autobiographical reflections ('So here I am, in the middle way, having had twenty years'), the memories of childhood ('the nursery bedroom', 'the April dooryard') the fire-watching scene in... | |
 | Reginald Gibbons - Literary Criticism - 1989 - 320 pages
...volume he has published, and culminate in a passage in his most recent book of poems, Four Quartets: So here I am, in the middle way, having had twenty...years — Twenty years largely wasted, the years of 1'entre deux guerres — Trying to learn to use words, and every attempt Is a wholly new start, and... | |
 | Raymond J. S. Grant - England - 1989 - 516 pages
...contamination of B or a predecessor by a text belonging to the 0CaC tradition. CHAPTER 8: CONCLUSIONS So here I am, in the middle way, having had twenty years ... Trying to learn to use words, and every attempt Is a wholly new start, and a different kind of... | |
 | John Gross - Literary Collections - 1992 - 340 pages
...spite of his efforts to break up his splendid incantations with passages of the prosiest of prose:So here I am, in the middle way, having had twenty years Twenty years largely wasted, the years of Centre deux guerres Trying to learn to use words, and every attempt Is a wholly new start, and a different... | |
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So here I am, in the middle way, having had twenty years— Twenty years largely wasted, the years of I'entre deux guerres— Trying to learn to use words, and every attempt Is a wholly new start, and a different kind of failure... 
