An introduction to Eliot’s great religious poem by Dr Oliver Tearle T. S. Eliot’s 1930 poem Ash-Wednesday needs to be viewed as part of the shift in Eliot’s writing towards a more devotional aspect, a shift that would culminate in Four Quartets (1943). The poem, like The Waste Land and […]
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A Section-by-Section Summary of T. S. Eliot’s Ash-Wednesday
A summary of a major Eliot poem The following constitutes a very brief summary of the six sections of T. S. Eliot’s long poem Ash-Wednesday (1930), which was the first major poem Eliot wrote after his conversion to Christianity in 1927. (That same year, he wrote ‘Journey of the Magi’, […]