Tracing T. S. Eliot's Spirit Essays on his Poetry and Thought [Hardcover]

A leading Eliot scholar explores T. S. Eliot's quest for the world of the spirit.A. David Moody examines T. S. Eliot's 'peregrinations' SH his quest for the world of the spirit. In a series of essays Moody offers new insights into Eliot's engagement with the religions and cultures of America, India and Europe; and he shows how Eliot's major poems give form to 'the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being'. Mapping T. S. Eliot's Peregrinations offers the richly informed reflections of a leading Eliot scholar; it will stimulate and enlighten students and scholars of Eliot, and any reader with an interest in the life of poetry.A. David Moody examines T. S. Eliot's 'peregrinations' SH his quest for the world of the spirit. In a series of essays Moody offers new insights into Eliot's engagement with the religions and cultures of America, India and Europe; and he shows how Eliot's major poems give form to 'the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being'. Mapping T. S. Eliot's Peregrinations offers the richly informed reflections of a leading Eliot scholar; it will stimulate and enlighten students and scholars of Eliot, and any reader with an interest in the life of poetry.A. David Moody examines T. S. Eliot's peregrinations --his quest for the world of the spirit. In a series of essays Moody offers new insights into Eliot's engagement with the religions and cultures of America, India and Europe; and he shows how Eliot's major poems give form to the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being. This book offers the richly informed reflections of a leading Eliot scholar; it will stimulate and enlighten students and scholars of Eliot, and any reader with an interest in the life of poetry.Foreword; Part I: 1. The American strain; 2. Passage to India; 3. Peregrine in England; 4. The mind of Europe; Part II: 5. Pervigilium veneris and the modern mind; Part III: 6. The Waste Land: 'To fill all the desert with invils9