Eliot's Rose Garden: Some phenomenology and theology in "Burnt Norton"

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Hart, Kevin. (2015). Eliot's Rose Garden: Some phenomenology and theology in "Burnt Norton". Christianity and Literature. 64(3), pp. 243 - 265. https://doi.org/10.1177/0148333115577900
AuthorsHart, Kevin
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T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets respond to and gradually modify the experience that is evoked in the first part of “Burnt Norton”. Yet the well-known rose garden scene has been variously interpreted, the “presences” being either naturalized or regarded as supernatural entities. A phenomenological reading of the rose garden scene gives us a more secure, and also a more nuanced, understanding of what happens in the rose garden, and therefore allows us to develop a fuller and more reliable reading of Four Quartets.

KeywordsBurnt Norton; Four Quartets; mystical experience; phenomenology; reduction; T. S. Eliot
Year2015
JournalChristianity and Literature
Journal citation64 (3), pp. 243 - 265
PublisherSage Publications Ltd.
ISSN0148-3331
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)https://doi.org/10.1177/0148333115577900
Page range243 - 265
Research GroupInstitute for Religion and Critical Inquiry
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Place of publicationUnited Kingdom
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