RT Article
T1 The Anglo-Catholic Apocalyptic Milieu and T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land
JF Christianity & literature
VO 73
IS 2
SP 206
OP 228
A1 Crace, Benjamin D.
LA English
YR 2024
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1892040972
AB This article seeks to clarify which apocalyptic elements of the World War I era persist into The Waste Land. It begins with a thick historical contextualization. Then, it looks at contemporaneous media that characterizes the Anglo-Catholic apocalyptic milieu. Next, it examines an adjacent literary parallel: a forgotten play called Armageddon. Finally, I approach the poem itself, teasing out the elements of the Anglo-Catholic milieu and analyzing how Eliot imports and subverts their meaning. I conclude that the Anglo-Catholic apocalyptic helps form the contextual contrast from which the poem’s meanings can be multiplied and reappraised.
K1 Armageddon
K1 World War I
K1 Anglo-Catholicism
K1 Apocalypticism
K1 The Waste Land
DO 10.1353/chy.2024.a930541