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The Similarities in the Moral Philosophy in T. S. Eliot and
George Santayana

Dr. S. Sridevi


Eliot in 1934 by Lady Ottoline Morrell
Courtesy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._S._Eliot

Abstract

This paper aims at understanding the philosophy of life in Four Quartets by T. S. Eliot (1888–1965), an American-born poet, playwright, and critic. The idea of humility is reinforced by T. S. Eliot in Four Quartets. This is also a major theme in Santayana’s writings. George Santayana (1863-1952), the Spanish-American philosopher and poet received his doctorate degree from Harvard University in 1889 and later became a faculty member there. He was a highly respected and inspiring teacher, and his students included poets Conrad Aiken, T. S. Eliot, Robert Frost and Wallace Stevens. He emerged as a central figure in American Philosophical circles. The paper examines the similarities in thought in the poems of T. S. Eliot and George Santayana.

Keywords: George Santayana, T. S. Eliot, humility


A 1936 Time drawing of Santayana
Courtesy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Santayana

Introduction

Four Quartets refers to a series of four poems by T. S. Eliot in 1943; the work is considered to be Eliot’s masterpiece. “Burnt Norton'' (1936) was published in Collected Poems 1909–1935; it then appeared in pamphlet form in 1941. Burnt Norton is a country house in the Cotswold Hills of Gloucestershire that Eliot visited in the summer of 1934. It is set in the rose garden of the house. The opening lines are assumed to be taken from a passage which was deleted from his play Murder in the Cathedral (1935). “East Coker” (1940) appeared in the New English Weekly and then in pamphlet form. “East Coker” is named after the hamlet in Somersetshire where Eliot’s ancestors lived before immigrating to America in the 1660s; he visited the site in 1937. “The Dry Salvages” (1941) was first published in the New English Weekly and in pamphlet form. The title of the poem refers to a formation of rocks near Cape Ann, Massachusetts which Eliot had visited as a child. “Little Gidding” (1942) appeared both in the New English Weekly and in pamphlet form. The title is taken from the name of a village in Huntingdonshire where Nicholas Ferrar established an Anglican community in the 17th century. The poem is set at the Little Gidding chapel in winter. (Britannica)

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Dr. S. Sridevi
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Chevalier T. Thomas Elizabeth College for Women
Chennai 600011
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