Language in the Middle Way: T. S. Eliot's Engagement with Madhyamaka Buddhism in Four Quartets

In this paper, I trace the influence that Buddhist texts had on the poetic design and philosophical orientation of T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets. References to the “middle way” in the poems point us to texts from the very earliest moments of the Buddhist tradition, texts to which Eliot had access...

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Main Author: Upton, Edward 1973- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Oxford University Press [2018]
In: Journal of the American Academy of Religion
Year: 2018, Volume: 86, Issue: 3, Pages: 821-850
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Eliot, T. S. 1888-1965, Four quartets / Nāgārjuna, Mādhyamakakārikā
IxTheo Classification:BL Buddhism
CC Christianity and Non-Christian religion; Inter-religious relations
CD Christianity and Culture
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