T.S. Eliot’s Christmas Poems: An Essay in Writing-as-Reading and Other “Impossible Unions”
- ISBN-10
- 1137479124
- ISBN-13
- 9781137479129
- Category
- Literary Criticism
- Pages
- 93
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014-09-16
- Publisher
- Springer
- Author
- G. Atkins
Description
This is the first full-scale analysis of T.S. Eliot's six "Ariel Poems" as Christmas poems. Through close readings, Atkins argues that these poems considered together emerge as clearly related representations of the "impossible union" that occurred in the Incarnation.
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