T.S. Eliot and the Fulfillment of Christian Poetics

By G. Douglas Atkins

The fruits of a trilogy that all started with T.S. Eliot, Lancelot Andrewes, and the note, and persisted with T.S. Eliot: The Poet as Christian, this gracefully carried out new booklet brings to a successful end the original attempt to pinpoint and establish the Christian features of Eliot's poetic artwork.

The e-book bargains a detailed yet companionable studying of every of the advanced poems that make up 4 Quartets, the essay-poem that's Eliot's masterwork. concentrating on the diversity of talking voices dramatized, Atkins unearths for the 1st time the Incarnational shape that governs the work's 'purposive movement' towards purification and fulfilment of issues of view that have been represented previous within the poems.

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