T. S. Eliot in Ecstasy: Feeling, Reason, Mysticism

On January 2, 2020, Princeton University opened to the public 1,131 previously unseen letters from T. S. Eliot to Emily Hale, whom he had known when he was a student at Harvard. In this correspondence, which stretches from 1930 to 1956, Eliot removes his mask and freely discusses his feelings about...

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Main Author: Brooker, Jewel Spears 1940- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Johns Hopkins University Press [2021]
In: Christianity & literature
Year: 2021, Volume: 70, Issue: 1, Pages: 22-27
IxTheo Classification:CD Christianity and Culture
KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history
NBE Anthropology
Further subjects:B Ecstasy
B impersonality
B Mysticism
B feeling vs. reason
B patterns
B T. S. Eliot
B Emily Hale
B Dialectic
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Summary:On January 2, 2020, Princeton University opened to the public 1,131 previously unseen letters from T. S. Eliot to Emily Hale, whom he had known when he was a student at Harvard. In this correspondence, which stretches from 1930 to 1956, Eliot removes his mask and freely discusses his feelings about life, love, poetry, politics, and religion. This paper discusses a major spiritual pattern found in the letters.
ISSN:2056-5666
Contains:Enthalten in: Christianity & literature
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1353/chy.2021.0001