T. S. Eliot: Critical Essays (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781546280514)

This edited book is the work of four years, where the writers try to present a different study and understanding of some of T. S. Eliot's poetry and his unique style of being a modern poet not exactly like the other modernist poets such as Ralph Waldo Emerson. We have found that Eliot, in his poetry and prose writings, was a modernist writer who, unlike other modernist poets, did not accept the way others rejected the values of religion and tradition. Eliot focuses more on the role of religion and tradition in the psychological state of the individual and its impact upon the social stability. His view point regarding the vital role of spiritualty in the life of the individual could be clearly seen in his poetic poems and prose writings, but this aspect has been too little or not tackled as it is done with Homer.