Conversion in the Stubborn Season: T. S. Eliot's "A Song for Simeon"
T. S. Eliot's conversion was especially a conversion to the truth of dogma. And, for Eliot, no dogma proved more decisive at the time of his conversion than the dogma of the Incarnation. In a particularly heightened way, the Ariel poems express the agony of journeying towards a confession of th...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2025
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Christianity & literature
Year: 2025, Volume: 74, Issue: 2, Pages: 192-201 |
| Further subjects: | B
Simeon
B Incarnation B Lancelot Andrewes B Ariel poems B T. S. Eliot |
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| Summary: | T. S. Eliot's conversion was especially a conversion to the truth of dogma. And, for Eliot, no dogma proved more decisive at the time of his conversion than the dogma of the Incarnation. In a particularly heightened way, the Ariel poems express the agony of journeying towards a confession of the Incarnation—a journey that Eliot himself made under the literary and theological tutelage of Bishop Lancelot Andrewes. The speaker of "A Song for Simeon" offers a counterpoint to Eliot's conversion. The speaker is unable to accept the radical truth of the Incarnation. Instead Eliot's Simeon concludes, "I am dying in my own death." |
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| ISSN: | 2056-5666 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Christianity & literature
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/chy.2025.a967574 |
