Barry Spurr is Associate Professor of English Literature in the University of Sydney. He has published extensively on Renaissance and Modernist poetry, religious literature and liturgical language. He is the author of books on studying poetry, Lytton Strachey's prose, poetry about the Virgin Mary and Anglican and Roman Catholic liturgical language reform (The Word in the Desert, The Lutterworth Press, 1995).

Eliot once said, 'I believe that all our problems turn out ulitmatley to be a religious problem' (p.175). Spurr demonstrates convincingly that Eliot believed what he said and also believed that his version of Anglicanism offered the best solution to these problems. Spurr's lucid, well-researched, judicious book should be prized by anyone who wants a better understanding of Eliot's complex religious views and the profound influence they had on his writings.

• Preface and Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; I The Sources of Faith, Familial and Philosophical (1888-1917); II Towards Anglo-Catholicism (1917-1927); III The Struggle for Existence (1915-1933); IV Anglo-Catholicism: 'entre deux guerres' (1918-1939); V Anglo-Catholic in Religion (1927-1965); VI A Christian State; VII Anglo-Catholic in Literature; Conclusion; Appendix One: The Unpublished Letters and Diary of Mary Trevelyan; Appendix Two: The Unpublished Papers of George Every; Appendix Three: T.S. Eliot and C.S. Lewis; Appendix Four: T.S. Eliot and Anti-Semitism; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Barry Spurr is Associate Professor of English Literature in the University of Sydney. He has published extensively on Renaissance and Modernist poetry, religious literature and liturgical language. He is the author of books on studying poetry, Lytton Strachey's prose, poetry about the Virgin Mary and Anglican and Roman Catholic liturgical language reform (The Word in the Desert, The Lutterworth Press, 1995).

Eliot once said, 'I believe that all our problems turn out ulitmatley to be a religious problem' (p.175). Spurr demonstrates convincingly that Eliot believed what he said and also believed that his version of Anglicanism offered the best solution to these problems. Spurr's lucid, well-researched, judicious book should be prized by anyone who wants a better understanding of Eliot's complex religious views and the profound influence they had on his writings.

• Preface and Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; I The Sources of Faith, Familial and Philosophical (1888-1917); II Towards Anglo-Catholicism (1917-1927); III The Struggle for Existence (1915-1933); IV Anglo-Catholicism: 'entre deux guerres' (1918-1939); V Anglo-Catholic in Religion (1927-1965); VI A Christian State; VII Anglo-Catholic in Literature; Conclusion; Appendix One: The Unpublished Letters and Diary of Mary Trevelyan; Appendix Two: The Unpublished Papers of George Every; Appendix Three: T.S. Eliot and C.S. Lewis; Appendix Four: T.S. Eliot and Anti-Semitism; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Barry Spurr is Associate Professor of English Literature in the University of Sydney. He has published extensively on Renaissance and Modernist poetry, religious literature and liturgical language. He is the author of books on studying poetry, Lytton Strachey's prose, poetry about the Virgin Mary and Anglican and Roman Catholic liturgical language reform (The Word in the Desert, The Lutterworth Press, 1995).

Eliot once said, 'I believe that all our problems turn out ulitmatley to be a religious problem' (p.175). Spurr demonstrates convincingly that Eliot believed what he said and also believed that his version of Anglicanism offered the best solution to these problems. Spurr's lucid, well-researched, judicious book should be prized by anyone who wants a better understanding of Eliot's complex religious views and the profound influence they had on his writings.

• Preface and Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; I The Sources of Faith, Familial and Philosophical (1888-1917); II Towards Anglo-Catholicism (1917-1927); III The Struggle for Existence (1915-1933); IV Anglo-Catholicism: 'entre deux guerres' (1918-1939); V Anglo-Catholic in Religion (1927-1965); VI A Christian State; VII Anglo-Catholic in Literature; Conclusion; Appendix One: The Unpublished Letters and Diary of Mary Trevelyan; Appendix Two: The Unpublished Papers of George Every; Appendix Three: T.S. Eliot and C.S. Lewis; Appendix Four: T.S. Eliot and Anti-Semitism; Notes; Bibliography; Index