{"product_id":"t-s-eliot-and-the-g-douglas-atkins-9781602582552","title":"T. S. Eliot and the Essay: From the Sacred Wood to Four Quartets","description":"\u003cp\u003eG. Douglas Atkins here offers an original consideration of T. S. Eliot's essay as a form of embodied thinking. A combination of literature and philosophy, the genre of the essay holds within itself a great tension--that between truth and creative prose. And, as Atkins explains, these conflicting forces of truth and creativity exist not only within the literary format itself but also within the writers and their relationships with the genre, making essay writing a wonderfully enriching \"impure art.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExploring the similarities between Eliot's prose and poetry with the art of essay writing, Atkins discovers remarkably similar patterns of Incarnational thinking that emerge in each. In so doing, he establishes for the first time the essayistic nature of the great poem \u003ci\u003eFour Quartets \u003c\/i\u003eand provides an eloquent reflection on how the essay in all its impurity functions as Incarnational art, an embodiment of truth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e G. Douglas Atkins\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1602582556\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781602582552\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Baylor University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/15\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.93lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.16h x 6.42w x 0.72d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2011","brand":"G. Douglas Atkins","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47202984657151,"sku":"9781602582552","price":54.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7918847a-2f98-4889-b12a-a4ea28b50fdb.jpg?v=1756833973","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/t-s-eliot-and-the-g-douglas-atkins-9781602582552","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}