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the power of the poetry is such that we cannot rest until we
have both 'experience' and 'meaning'. And it is the arriving
at the meaning, not the explaining of it, that matters. Anyone
who attempts to 'elucidate' Four Quartets must be aware all
the time that the poems themselves supply the light.

I wish to thank Mr. Eliot for reading the first draft of this
essay and for adding some interesting notes. It would be
ungracious not to express my gratitude for his kindly encour-
agement, but presumptuous to suggest that this is in any
sense an 'authorized' commentary. It is an attempt to indicate
what the poetry means for one reader. Whether it is more
than that is for other readers to decide.

-vi-

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Publication Information: Book Title: 'Four Quartets' Rehearsed: A Commentary on T. S. Eliot's Cycle of Poems. Contributors: Raymond Preston - author. Publisher: Sheed & Ward. Place of Publication: New York. Publication Year: 1946. Page Number: vi.
    
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