by Eliot · Cluster: Self-Knowledge · Immortality · Self-Reliance
Abstract
Index-of-first-lines fragment (S–U) listing openings including ‘The winter evening settles down’, ‘Time present and time past’ (Burnt Norton) and Practical Cats lines; apparatus to the corpus.
Connections
Motifs: Book Reading, Winter Themes & Concepts: Memory and Time, Mortality
Testo integrale / Full text
Standing upon the shore of all we know 1
Stone, bronze, stone, steel, stone, oakleaves, horses’ heels 1
Sunday: this satisfied procession 1
The broad-backed hippopotamus 1
The children who explored the brook and found 1
The Eagle soars in the summit of Heaven 1
The moonflower opens to the moth 1
The Naming of Cats is a difficult matter 1
The Pekes and the Pollicles, everyone knows 1
The readers of the Boston Evening Transcript 1
The Rum Turn Tugger is a Curious Cat 1
The songsters of the air repair 1
The tiger in the tiger-pit 1
The wind sprang up at four o’clock 1
The winter evening settles down 1
There are several attitudes towards Christmas 1
There’s a whisper down the line at 1.2 3
They are rattling breakfast plates in basement kitchens 1
Time present and time past 1
To whom I owe the leaping delight 1
Twelve o’clock 1
We are the hollow men 1
Webster was much possessed by death 1
What seas what shores what grey rocks and what islands 1
When Mr. Apollinax visited the United States 1
When we came home across the hill 1
While all the East was weaving red with gray 1