T.S. Eliot's Christmas poems : an essay in writing-as-reading and other "impossible unions"

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T.S. Eliot's Christmas poems : an essay in writing-as-reading and other "impossible unions"

G. Douglas Atkins

(Palgrave pivot)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2014

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 86-89) and index

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This is the first full-scale analysis of T.S. Eliot's six "Ariel Poems" as Christmas poems. Through close readings, Atkins argues that these poems considered together emerge as clearly related representations of the "impossible union" that occurred in the Incarnation.

Table of Contents

1. Challenging Critical Orthodoxies, Confronting Binary Oppositions: The Commentator par lui-meme 2. The Gift Half Understood, or Eliot's Ariel Poems: Beyond the Old Dispensation 3. "Triumphal March": The Problem Lies in Our Perceiving 4. "The Cultivation of Christmas Trees": Through the Eyes of Children (and the Child-like) 5. "Journey of the Magi": A Fable of Commentary: With a Second Coming to the Inexhaustible 6. "Animula": What the Simple Soul Knows, or "Living first in the silence after the viaticum" 7. "A Song for Simeon": The Difference the Letter Makes: Prayer, Self-Criticism, Validity 8. "Marina": "Living to live in a world of time beyond me": Recognizing, Perceiving, and Understanding

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