RT Article
T1 Tongued with Fire: T.S. Eliot's Poetics of Prayer
JF Journal of Anglican studies
VO 10
IS 2
SP 147
OP 160
A1 Kramer, Kenneth 1941-
LA English
YR 2012
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1784802409
AB What makes prayer valid? For the poet, T.S. Eliot, there is something more, something that is sometimes unnoticed, but which, if realized, can reanimate prayer life. This brief essay unfolds in three steps: (1) pointing to the contemplative influence of Eliot's conversion to the Church of England; (2) depicting the seventeenth-century Little Gidding lay-monastic community as the definitive influence on Eliot's final quartet; and (3) unpacking six interrelated prayer-revitalizing insights from a passage in ‘Little Gidding’, practices that help make prayer valid.
K1 T.S. Eliot
K1 Prayer
K1 Monastic
K1 Little Gidding
K1 Kelham
K1 Conversion
K1 contemplative
K1 Anglican
DO 10.1017/S1740355312000101