© by T. S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot (1888 - 1965)
The wounded surgeon plies the steel
Language: English
The wounded surgeon plies the steel [ ... ]
S. Gubaidulina sets stanzas 4-5
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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.Text Authorship:
- by T. S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot (1888 - 1965), no title, appears in Four Quartets, in 2. East Coker, no. 4, copyright © 1943 [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 Sofia Gubaidulina (1931 - 2025), no title, 1987, stanzas 4-5 [ soprano and string octet ], from Hommage à T. S. Eliot, no. 5 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Graham Whettam (b. 1927), "The wounded surgeon plies the steel", published 1960 [ SATB chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 25
Word count: 177