T.S. Eliot's Christmas Poems: An Essay in Writing-As-Reading and Other "Impossible Unions"

by G. Douglas Atkins

Here G. Douglas Atkins presents T.S. Eliot's six "Ariel Poems" as dramatizations of the meaning and significance of Christmas: Journey of the Magi, A Song for Simeon, Animula, Marina, Triumphal March, and The Cultivation of Christmas Trees. Commissioned to commemorate the season, these short poems, of around 40 lines each, considered together emerge as clearly related representations of the "impossible union" that occurred in the Incarnation. In commentary...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137485701
• ISBN13: 9781137485700
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
• Length: 93 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"