Tracing T. S. Eliot's Spirit

A. David Moody examines T. S. Eliot''s peregrinations--his quest for the world of the spirit. In a series of essays Moody offers new insights into Eliot''s engagement with the religions and cultures of America India and Europe; and he shows how Eliot''s major poems give form to the deeper unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being. This book offers the richly informed reflections of a leading Eliot scholar; it will stimulate and enlighten students and scholars of Eliot and any reader with an interest in the life of poetry.