© by T. S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot (1888 - 1965)
O dark dark dark. They all go into the...
Language: English
O dark dark dark. They all go into the dark [ ... ]
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This text may be copyright, so we will not display it until we obtain permission to do so or discover it is public-domain.First published in New English Weekly, March 1940.
Text Authorship:
- by T. S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot (1888 - 1965), no title, appears in Four Quartets, in 2. East Coker, no. 3, first published 1944, copyright © [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Derek Bourgeois (b. 1941), "East Coker", 1962 [baritone and piano], from Six songs of wandering, text begins "In order to arrive there" [text not verified]
- by John Mitchell (b. 1941), "Shall I say it again?", op. 109 no. 3 (2001) [soprano and piano], from Cantata: Four Passages (Excerpts from Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot), no. 3. [text not verified]
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