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This well illustrated book celebrates every aspect of the
wide-ranging achievements of William Morris - writer, designer,
cultural critic, revolutionary socialist - with particular emphasis
on their relevance to our own times. The book makes available
up-to-date Morris scholarship in accessible form. Written by a
group of international scholars who took part in a conference
marking the centenary of the death of Morris in 1896, the book has
sections devoted to Morris and Literature (covering texts from The
Earthly Paradise to the late romances); Morris, the Arts &
Crafts and the New World (including discussions of his influence in
Rhode Island, Boston, Ontario and New Zealand); and Morris, Gender
and Politics (with fresh consideration of his relation to Victorian
ideas of manliness and of the particular qualities of his
anti-statist politics). The latter section also draws attention to
a hitherto unknown play by Morris's daughter May and concludes with
an account of his biographer, the late E.P. Thompson.
T. S. Eliot was raised in the Unitarian faith of his family in St.
Louis but drifted away from their beliefs while studying
philosophy, mysticism, and anthropology at Harvard. During a year
in Paris (1910-1911), he became involved with a group of Catholic
writers there and subsequently went through a gradual conversion to
Catholic Christianity. He surprised his brother during a visit to
Rome in 1926, when he fell to his knees at St. Peter's, and he
surprised his Bloomsbury friends a year later when he was received
into the Church of England, becoming an adherent of the
traditionalist Anglo-Catholic wing of that church. Many studies of
Eliot's writings have mentioned his religious beliefs, but most
have failed to give the topic due weight and many have
misunderstood or misrepresented his faith. More recently, however,
some scholars have begun exploring this dimension of Eliot's though
more carefully and fully. The critics whose essays are collected
here are among that group. Here the reader will find Eliot's
Anglo-Catholicism accurately defined and thoughtfully considered.
Several essays illuminate the all-important influence of the French
Catholic writers he came to know in Paris. Prominent among them
were those who wrote for or were otherwise associated with the
Nouvelle Revue Francaise, including Andre Gide, Paul Claudel, and
Charles-Louis Philippe. Also active in Paris at that time was the
notorious Charles Maurras, whose influence on Eliot has been
exaggerated by those who wished to discredit Eliot's traditionalist
views. A more measured assessment of Maurras's influence has been
needed and is found in several essays here. A wiser French Catholic
writer, Jacques Maritain, has been largely ignored by Eliot
scholars, but his influence is now given due consideration.
Contributors to the volume take account of Eliot's intellectual
relationship with such figures as John Henry Newman, Charles
Williams, and the expert on church architecture, W. R. Lethaby.
Eliot's engagement with other contemporaries who held a variety of
Christian beliefs--including George Santayana, Paul Elmer More, C.
S. Lewis, and David Jones--is also clarified. The keynote of
Eliot's cultural and political writings is his belief that religion
and culture are integrally related. Several writers in this volume
examine his ideas on this subject, placing them in the context of
Maritain's ideas, as well as those of the Catholic historian
Christopher Dawson. The book as a whole presents the subject of
Eliot's religious beliefs in rich detail, from a number of
different perspectives, giving readers the opportunity to see the
topic in its complexity and fullness.
T. S. Eliot was raised in the Unitarian faith of his family in St.
Louis but drifted away from their beliefs while studying
philosophy, mysticism, and anthropology at Harvard. During a year
in Paris, he became involved with a group of Catholic writers and
subsequently went through a gradual conversion to Catholic
Christianity. Many studies of Eliot's writings have mentioned his
religious beliefs, but most have failed to give the topic due
weight, and many have misunderstood or misrepresented his faith.
More recently, scholars have begun exploring this dimension of
Eliot's thought more carefully and fully. In this book readers will
find Eliot's Anglo-Catholicism accurately defined and thoughtfully
considered. Essays illuminate the all-important influence of the
French Catholic writers he came to know in Paris. Prominent among
them were those who wrote for or were otherwise associated with the
Nouvelle Revue Francaise, including Andre Gide, Paul Claudel, and
Charles-Louis Philippe. Also active in Paris at that time was the
notorious Charles Maurras, whose influence on Eliot has been
exaggerated by those who wished to discredit Eliot's traditionalist
views. A more measured assessment of Maurras's influence has been
needed and is found in several essays here. A wiser French Catholic
writer, Jacques Maritain, has been largely ignored by Eliot
scholars, but his influence is now given due consideration. The
keynote of Eliot's cultural and political writings is his belief
that religion and culture are integrally related. Several
contributors examine his ideas on this subject, placing them in the
context of Maritain's ideas, as well as those of the Catholic
historian Christopher Dawson. Contributors take account of Eliot's
intellectual relationship with such figures as John Henry Newman,
Charles Williams, and the expert on church architecture, W. R.
Lethaby. Eliot's engagement with other contemporaries who held a
variety of Christian beliefs including George Santayana, Paul Elmer
More, C. S. Lewis, and David Jones is also explored. This
collection presents the subject of Eliot's religious beliefs in
rich detail, from a number of different perspectives, giving
readers the opportunity to see the topic in its complexity and
fullness."
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