By G. Atkins
Rooted in shut examining of texts, together with the essays of E.B. White, this complete review of the oft-slighted subform of the literary essay situates the popular on the center of the essay as shape.
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B. ” White first reports putting up a swing for a three-year-old girl in bucolic conditions and then juxtaposes this experience with an article he came across on radiological warfare, so-called death dust. ” White then responds with this acute and moving analysis: The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man’s adjustment to it—the speed of his acceptance. Already bombproofing is on approximately the same level as mothproofing. Two or three major cities per month isn’t much of an area, but it is a 36 ON THE FAMILIAR ESSAY start.
B. White a craftsman, albeit a consummate craftsman. In “East Coker,” part of perhaps the greatest poem of the twentieth century, likely the greatest religious poem since The Divine Comedy, time appears represented in another dimension—embodied as it is. Attention thus shifts to keeping time, rather than “taking” or “spending” or “making the most of” time. Time begins, indeed, to appear as gift and as guide—as guide to gift, and so as mediation. The nature of things, reality-as-such, Being, God—Eliot and White alike appeal to nothing more, nothing besides.
33 For a time, that is, for a moment in time. * * * Written from a Christian understanding, in particular an AngloCatholic understanding, Four Quartets is fundamentally, basically, and first of all about time. The effort is, according to many readers, to redeem time.
