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Article: THE VOICE OF LANCELOT ANDREWES IN ELIOT'S ASH-WEDNESDAY
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- Renascence
- Article date:
- January 1, 2005
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CopyrightCopyright Marquette University Winter 2005. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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WHEN T. S. Eliot revealed in 1928 that the viewpoint of his forthcoming work would be "classicist in literature, royalist in politics, anglo-catholic in religion," (Andrewes ix) many critics were not amused. Or else, like Sherry Mangan, they were very amused indeed:
If even certain Anglo-French circles in Paris which are in close touch with the English scene still consider the best joke of the past three years Mr Eliot's "daring" in proclaiming himself a royalist in politics (and after all, for England, it is pretty funny), of how much less interest to our present generation in America are Mr Eliot's however sincere preoccupations with out-cocteauing M Cocteau in what is to American-born ...