T.S. Eliot, Lancelot Andrewes, and the Word: Intersections of Literature and Christianity

With special attention to the poems For Lancelot Andrewes, Journey of the Magi, and Ash-Wednesday , G. Douglas Atkins offers an exciting new analysis of T.S. Eliot's debt to the seventeenth-century churchman Lancelot Andrewes and his theories of reading and writing texts.

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G. Douglas Atkins is Professor Emeritus at the University of Kansas, USA, where he has taught for 43 years. He has won three awards for outstanding teaching, directed the graduate program at the University of Kansas for 18 years, and is the author of 17 books and 3 edited collections.

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Preface 1. On Reading and Incarnation 2. Eliot Reading Lancelot Andrewes 3. Homage to Lancelot Andrewes 4. The Voice of (An)other: Lancelot Andrewes within and for Eliot's Poems 5. 'Sovegna vos' in Eliot's Marian Poems: Falsehood, Separation, and Ash-Wednesday 6. 'Orare et laborare': Suffer Not Separation or Other Falsehoods Bibliography