THE HIDDEN APOCALYPSE: T. S. ELIOT'S EARLY WORK
Moving from T. S. Eliot's early poems to his later work does not represent a shift from atheistic to religious poetry, but from one scriptural model to another. In The Waste Land there is a painful absence of vision, a desire for a hidden apocalypse, a spiritual dimension which is conspicuous b...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
1996
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Literature and theology
Year: 1996, Volume: 10, Issue: 1, Pages: 68-80 |
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| Summary: | Moving from T. S. Eliot's early poems to his later work does not represent a shift from atheistic to religious poetry, but from one scriptural model to another. In The Waste Land there is a painful absence of vision, a desire for a hidden apocalypse, a spiritual dimension which is conspicuous by its absence. The language is characteristically apocalyptic, but withheld, allowed to wither in a desert of unknowing. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Literature and theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/litthe/10.1.68 |