While T.S. Eliot is has a reputation as a Christian poet and certainly uses oodles of Biblical imagery, I don’t think Christians should read him as a Christian poet. First an exposition of Eliot’s style: His post-conversion poems are given a sacred quality by his use of a metaphysical flavor – he uses sensory images to convey a…
“No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.” – F. Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby [To M.L., his boots stretched on the fireplace] From the shadows we watch his face in the blue half-light of the fire. Hear the draft beneath the door and the fire’s dying…
Okay: – What Do You Care What Other People Think? Richard Feynman – The Blessed Damozel by Dante Gabriel Rossetti – Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot – The Pre-Raphaelite Poets with Intro by Harold Bloom – Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy Good: – The Lady of Shallott by Tennyson – With my Trousers…