T. S. Eliot and the Ideology of Four Quartets

af John Xiros (University of British Columbia Cooper

Criticism of Eliot interprets his work as the private record of an internal spiritual struggle. Professor Cooper re-establishes the public dimension Eliot intended for his poetry. Eliot aimed to reinforce established social structures during a period of painful political transition. This study offers a reinterpretation of Eliot, his work and of Anglo-American relations.