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

by G. Douglas Atkins

Book Overview

In this gracefully executed book, G. Douglas Atkins continues his explorations of the poetry and prose of T.S. Eliot. In highly original terms, Atkins offers a major new analysis of Eliot's debt to and use of Lancelot Andrewes, the seventeenth-century Anglican churchman, who was one of the greatest sermon-writers in the language, author of the enormously popular Preces Privatae (Private Prayers), and director of one of six 'companies' responsible...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137389656
• ISBN13: 9781137389657
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
• Length: 90 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"