T.S. Eliot, Lancelot Andrewes, and the Word: Intersections of Literature and Christianity

1. Front Matter

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2. On Reading and Incarnation

   • G. Douglas Atkins

   Pages 1-10

3. Eliot Reading Lancelot Andrewes

   • G. Douglas Atkins

   Pages 11-19

4. Homage to Lancelot Andrewes

   • G. Douglas Atkins

   Pages 20-45

5. The Voice of (An)other: Lancelot Andrewes within and for Eliot’s Poems

   • G. Douglas Atkins

   Pages 46-54

6. “Sovegna vos” in Eliot’s Marian Poems: Falsehood, Separation, and Ash-Wednesday

   • G. Douglas Atkins

   Pages 55-74

7. “Orare et laborare”: Suffer Not Separation or Other Falsehoods

   • G. Douglas Atkins

   Pages 75-82

8. Back Matter

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With special attention to the poems For Lancelot Andrewes, Journey of the Magi, and Ash-Wednesday , G. Douglas Atkins offers an exciting new analysis of T.S. Eliot's debt to the seventeenth-century churchman Lancelot Andrewes and his theories of reading and writing texts.

• bibliography
• Christianity
• English literature
• event
• George Eliot
• literature
• poem
• seventeenth century
• writing

"In his latest book, Atkins brings his characteristic clarity and incisiveness to the previously unexamined relation between Lancelot Andrewes and T.S. Eliot, as mutually influential friends whose writings prefigure the theoretical nuances of latter twentieth-century literary culture. Through Atkins' erudition and eye for essentials, Andrewes' sense of the via media provides a lens to Eliot's dialectical spirit: his pleasures, his difficulties, his art. Rarely does theory meet close-reading with such illuminating grace." - Bruce Bond, Regents Professor of English, University of North Texas, USA and author of Choir of the Wells

G. Douglas Atkins is Professor Emeritus at the University of Kansas, USA, where he has taught for 43 years. He has won three awards for outstanding teaching, directed the graduate program at the University of Kansas for 18 years, and is the author of 17 books and 3 edited collections.

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