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Article: Eliot the Enigma: An Observation of the Development of T. S. Eliot's Thought and Poetry
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- Anglican Theological Review
- Article date:
- April 1, 2003
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The significance of T. S. Eliot's conversion to Christianity in its Anglican form in 1927 is still a point of contention among critics. Eliot sounded his conversion in the preface to his collection of essays For Lancelot Andrewca, stating he was "classicist in literature, royalist in politics, and anglo-catholic in religion."1 Of these, Timothy Materer writes, "All three st[r]ands affirmed his belief in traditional order, but the key one of course referred to his 1927 conversion to the Christian faith, which indeed gave him a principle of order 'outside the self.'"2 Eliot's conversion, however, did not imply that his own critical faculties were now unneeded. In fact, according to Gordon ...