Though much has been written about T. S. Eliot since it was first published, Eliot and His Age remains the best introduction to the poet s life, ideas, and literary works. It is the essential starting place for anyone who would understand what Eliot was about. Russell Kirk s view of his older friend is sympathetic but not adulatory. His insights into Eliot s writings are informed by wide reading in the same authors who most influenced the poet, as well as by similar experiences and convictions. Kirk elaborates here a ...
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Though much has been written about T. S. Eliot since it was first published, Eliot and His Age remains the best introduction to the poet s life, ideas, and literary works. It is the essential starting place for anyone who would understand what Eliot was about. Russell Kirk s view of his older friend is sympathetic but not adulatory. His insights into Eliot s writings are informed by wide reading in the same authors who most influenced the poet, as well as by similar experiences and convictions. Kirk elaborates here a significant theory of literary meaning in general, showing how great literary works awaken our intuitive reason, giving us profound visions of truth that transcend logical processes. And he traces Eliot s political and cultural ideas to their true sources, showing the balance and subtlety of Eliot s views. Eliot and His Age is a literary biography that will endure when much of the more recent writing on Eliot is gathering dust."
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