T.S. Eliot, Lancelot Andrewes, and the Word: Intersections of Literature and Christianity

G. Douglas Atkins is Professor Emeritus at the University of Kansas, USA, where he has taught for 43 years. He has won three awards for outstanding teaching, directed the graduate program at the University of Kansas for 18 years, and is the author of 17 books and 3 edited collections.

"In his latest book, Atkins brings his characteristic clarity and incisiveness to the previously unexamined relation between Lancelot Andrewes and T.S. Eliot, as mutually influential friends whose writings prefigure the theoretical nuances of latter twentieth-century literary culture. Through Atkins' erudition and eye for essentials, Andrewes' sense of the via media provides a lens to Eliot's dialectical spirit: his pleasures, his difficulties, his art. Rarely does theory meet close-reading with such illuminating grace." - Bruce Bond, Regents Professor of English, University of North Texas, USA and author of Choir of the Wells

• Preface 1. On Reading and Incarnation 2. Eliot Reading Lancelot Andrewes 3. Homage to Lancelot Andrewes 4. The Voice of (An)other: Lancelot Andrewes within and for Eliot's Poems 5. 'Sovegna vos' in Eliot's Marian Poems: Falsehood, Separation, and Ash-Wednesday 6. 'Orare et laborare': Suffer Not Separation or Other Falsehoods Bibliography