Poetry and Belief in the Work of T. S. Eliot

Poetry and Belief in the Work of T. S. Eliot
Author: Kristian Smidt
Publisher:
Total Pages: 244
Release: 1978
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

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This title, first published in 1961, explores the general background of attitudes, beliefs and ideas from which Eliot's works have originated. This study examines the influences of Eliot's work, and includes Eliot's personal views as told to the author. The book also looks at technique, structure and imagery of his poetry. This title will be of interest to students of literature.

T. S. Eliot and Indic Traditions

T. S. Eliot and Indic Traditions
Author: Cleo McNelly Kearns
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 312
Release: 1987-06-26
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780521324397

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An exploration of Eliot's lifelong interest in Indic philosophy and religion.

Religion and Myth in T.S. Eliot's Poetry

Religion and Myth in T.S. Eliot's Poetry
Author: Michael Bell
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2016-08-17
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 144389835X

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T.S. Eliot was arguably the most important poet of the twentieth century. Nonetheless, there remains much scope for reconsidering the content, form and expressive nature of Eliot’s religious poetry, and this edited collection pays particular attention to the multivalent spiritual dimensions of his popular poems, such as ‘The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock’, ‘The Waste Land’, ‘Journey of the Magi’, ‘The Hollow Men’, and ‘Choruses’ from The Rock. Eliot’s sustained popularity is an intriguing cultural phenomenon, given that the religious voice of Eliot’s poetry is frequently antagonistic towards the ‘unchurched’ or secular reader: ‘You! Hypocrite lecteur!’ This said, Eliot’s spiritual development was not a logical matter and his devotional poetry is rarely didactic. The volume presents a rich and powerful range of essays by leading and emerging T.S. Eliot and literary modernist scholars, considering the doctrinal, religious, humanist, mythic and secular aspects of Eliot’s poetry: Anglo-Catholic belief (Barry Spurr), the integration of doctrine and poetry (Tony Sharpe), the modernist mythopoeia of Four Quartets (Michael Bell), the ‘felt significance’ of religious poetry (Andy Mousley), ennui as a modern evil (Scott Freer), Eliot’s pre-conversion encounter with ‘modernist theology’ (Joanna Rzepa), Eliot’s ‘religious agrarianism’ (Jeremy Diaper), the maternal allegory of Ash Wednesday (Matthew Geary), and an autobiographical reading of religious conversion inspired by Eliot in a secular age (Lynda Kong). This book is a timely addition to the ‘return of religion’ in modernist studies in the light of renewed interest in T.S. Eliot scholarship.

The Poetry of T. S. Eliot

The Poetry of T. S. Eliot
Author: D. E. S. Maxwell
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2015-12-22
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1317308174

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In this fascinating and revealing book, first published in 1952, Maxwell shows the development of Eliot’s poetry and poetic thought in the light of his political and religious attachments. This study traces Eliot’s style from the earliest poems to the Quartets, and examines the characteristics of Eliot’s earlier work adumbrate that of his maturity. The Poetry of T. S. Eliot is essential reading for students of literature.

Ash-Wednesday

Ash-Wednesday
Author: Thomas Stearns Eliot
Publisher:
Total Pages: 36
Release: 1933
Genre:
ISBN:

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Poetry and Belief in the Work of T. S. Eliot

Poetry and Belief in the Work of T. S. Eliot
Author: Kristian Smidt
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2015-12-22
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1317303210

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This title, first published in 1961, explores the general background of attitudes, beliefs and ideas from which Eliot’s works have originated. This study examines the influences of Eliot’s work, and includes Eliot’s personal views as told to the author. The book also looks at technique, structure and imagery of his poetry. This title will be of interest to students of literature.

Anglo-Catholic in Religion

Anglo-Catholic in Religion
Author: Barry Spurr
Publisher: Lutterworth Press
Total Pages: 457
Release: 2010-02-25
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0718840240

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"Barry Spurr's eagerly-awaited, definitive study of T.S. Eliot's Anglo-Catholic belief and practice shows how the poet is religion shaped his life and work for almost forty years, until his death in 1965. The author examines Eliot's formal adoption of Anglo-Catholicism, in 1927, as the culmination of his intellectual, cultural, artistic, spiritual and personal development to that point. This book presents the first detailed analysis of the unique influence that Anglo-Catholicismis doctrinal and devotional principles, and its social teaching, had on Eliot's poetry, plays, prose and personal life. An informed presentation and discussion of Anglo-Catholicism at the time of Eliot's conversion and through the subsequent decades of his Christian faith and practice. Significant new material from correspondence and diaries which sheds light on Eliot's thought, poetry and prose. This book is essential reading for all scholars and readers of T.S. Eliot and his circle; for students and devotees ofAnglo-Catholicism, and scholars of the interaction between literature and theology, especially in the twentieth century. It will also be of use to senior and Honours-level undergraduates and postgraduate research students working in the fields of Modernism and its principles and belief systems, and for students of religion, especially Western Christianity and Anglicanism."