Author Kenneth Asher argues that politics provided the intellectual framework Eliot employed throughout his career. The focus of this political dimension separates this book from previous studies of Eliot. The result is a reestimation of Eliot's view of literary history and theory and new appraisals of several major poems and plays.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. Historical background; 2. The French connection; 3. Orthodoxy and heresy; 4. Architect of a Christian order; 5. Visions and revisions; 6. Eliot and the new criticism; Conclusion; Notes; Index.
