Index
Advent, 10
Andrewes, Lancelot, 6, 19, 20, 24, 28, 48–50
Anglo-Catholicism, 8, 20, 22, 34, 51
Arnold, Matthew, 61
Atkins, G.D., Reading Eliot: “Four Quartets” and the Journey toward Understanding, 35
attachment, 53
Notes of a Native Son, 33
between, betweenness, in-between, 27–29, 35, 53
Blok, Aleksandr, 49
Bozarth-Campbell, Alla, The Word’s Body: An Incarnational Aesthetic of Interpretation, 58–59
Instaurations, 7
“The Music of a Lost Dynasty,” 7
charge, charged, 11, 28, 47, 52
Christianity, institutional, 50
cleansing, 53
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 61
communication, false forms of, 56
comparison, 2, 3, 5, 14, 15, 20, 21, 24, 28, 29, 33, 37, 39, 47
creative, 60
as literature embodied, 58
relationship to literature, 60
dance, dancing, 39, 40, 43, 48, 54
Daniel, Arnaut, 27
Dante, 7
The Divine Comedy, 15
Vita Nuova, 26
Davis, Walter A., 13
definite article, 60
depth, in-depth, 2, 3, 6, 10, 23, 39, 47
detachment, 53
difficult, difficulty, 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 30, 37, 38, 47
directness, 50
disembodiment, 23
dissociation of sensibility, 37
doubt, 26
Eliot, T.S. (works):
After Strange Gods: A Primer of Modern Heresy, 42
Ash-Wednesday, 7, 9, 13, 18–31, 34, 35, 38, 39, 47, 48, 53, 58
“Perch’io Non Spero,” 21
“Salutation,” 21
“Som de L’Escalina,” 21
Dante, 25
Essays Ancient and Modern, 7
For Lancelot Andrewes, 20
Four Quartets, 9, 13, 15, 21, 22, 25–27, 34, 37–39, 47, 48, 52, 53, 56–58
“Burnt Norton,” 48, 52, 53, 56
“The Dry Salvages,” 9, 50, 52, 56
“East Coker,” 39–41, 43, 52–54, 56
“Little Gidding,” 34, 39, 48, 52–58
“The Hollow Men,” 21, 29, 35, 40, 47
The Idea of a Christian Society, 29, 42
“Imperfect Critics,” 8
“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” 2, 27, 34, 37
“The Metaphysical Poets,” 3, 33, 37
Murder in the Cathedral, 40–41
Notes towards the Definition of Culture, 43
“The ‘Pensées’ of Pascal,” 51
Points of View, 5
The Rock, 51
The Sacred Wood, 2, 3, 8, 21, 51, 59, 60
Selected Essays, 26
“Tradition and the Individual Talent,” 3, 21
The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism, 5
The Waste Land, 2, 5, 9, 10, 25, 30, 34–40, 47, 48, 52
“The Fire Sermon,” 34
“A Game of Chess,” 35
“What the Thunder Said,” 34
embodiment, 14, 36, 38, 48, 52, 53, 58, 59, 61
Established Church, 14
Fabre, Lucien, 4
Fall, the, 36
familiar compound ghost, 34, 48, 56, 57
Fawkes, Guy, 35
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 33, 36, 44
“The Crack-Up,” 33
forgiveness, 57
Gass, William H., 60
Gordon, Lyndall, 22
harmony, harmonizing, 24, 27, 29, 42
Hartman, Geoffrey, 60
Heraclitus, 52
“the way up is the way down,” 52
Herbert of Cherbury, Lord, 37
Homer, 13
immanent purposiveness, 13
impossible union, 10, 38, 48, 51, 53, 54, 56, 59, 61
hypostatic Divine union of God and man, 51
in, through, and by means of, 8–11, 20, 30, 39, 48, 52, 53
incarnation, 24, 27, 38, 43, 48, 57–59, 61
Incarnation, 8, 9, 15, 22, 23, 26, 30, 39, 43, 47–53, 56, 57
Incarnational basis of Christianity, 8
Incarnational pattern, 9, 51, 53, 58, 59
Incarnational theology, 44
Incarnational turn, 20
Incarnational union, 39
Incarnation, the, 10, 26, 31, 47–52
indifference, 53
Inner Light, 42
Inquisition, 35
intersection, 9, 10, 23, 30, 51, 52, 56, 59
intra-textuality, 11
Jesus Christ, 9, 39, 49, 51, 56, 58
Johnson, Samuel, 61
journey toward understanding, 25, 47
Joyce, James, 51
Anna Livia Plurabelle, 5
Finnegans Wake, 5
Julian of Norwich, 57
Krishna, 52
letter, 14, 30, 40, 49, 58, 59, 61
“The spirit killeth, but the letter giveth life,” 7, 18
Lewis, C.S., 60
liberation, 54
literal, 3, 7–10, 12–14, 23, 25, 31, 35, 47, 52
literature, as word embodied, 58
logic:
Manicheans, 58
mediation, 20, 21, 23, 24, 30, 31, 50, 58
Mediator as Deity, 27
Metaxy, 29
middle way, 14
modern, Modernism, 1–3, 25, 32, 37, 48
Montaigne, Michel de, 22
mysticism, Christian, 50
“necessarye coniunction,” 10, 23, 27, 31, 39, 48, 54, 59, 61
Newman, John Henry, 26
Norton Anthology of English Literature, 56
objective correlative, 58
O’Connor, Flannery, Mystery and Manners, 58
Original Sin, 36
paganism, 25
paradigmatic instance, 9, 46, 47, 51
paradox, 21, 23, 24, 27, 36, 38, 52
parallelism, 49
parthenogenesis, human, 26, 51
Pascal, Blaise, Pensées, 26
pattern, 9, 26, 39, 40, 43, 44, 47, 48, 51, 53, 58, 60
personality, 2
Plato, 29
The Cantos, 8
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley, 13
reading
closely, 59
difficulty in, 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 30, 37, 38, 47
Incarnational, 59
like a writer, 11
work of, 12
Reformation, 35
reincarnation, 50
restoring (with a new verse), 27, 28, 37
rhyme, rhyming, 13, 25–29, 33, 34, 39, 40, 48, 52–54, 61
Romantics, Romanticism, 2, 3, 8, 9, 25, 50
short cut to the strangeness without the reality, 9, 50
rustics, Elizabethan, 39–41, 43, 48, 54
scepticism, 22
Schneidau, Herbert N., 8
separation, 23, 24, 27, 30, 31, 34, 35, 40, 41, 43, 58
seriality without paradigm, 10
silence, 28
Sisson, C.H., 59
The Discarnation, 59
Sevenoaks Essays, 59
in Ash-Wednesday, 21–24, 27, 29, 30, 34, 38, 48
in The Waste Land, 22
spirit, 2, 11, 40, 48, 52, 58, 59, 61
“The spirit killeth, but the letter giveth life,” 7, 18
spiritual autobiography, 26
spiritualist interpreters, 20
spiritual life, 42
“Anglo-Catholic in Religion”: T.S. Eliot and Christianity, 57
symbolist method, 49
sympathetic engagement, 60
synthesis, 38
trace (Derrida), 43
transcendence, 10, 20, 25, 26, 30, 38, 44, 47, 49, 52–54
transcendentalism, 22
Transcendental Signifier, 10
Trinity, 38
turn, turning, 3, 19–24, 27, 28, 48, 56
Virgin, the, 9, 20, 23, 27, 30, 38
Voegelin, Eric, 29
middle way, 14
will-fulness, 11
Williams, William Carlos, 11
“How Should One Read a Book?,” 60
word, 21, 24, 28, 35, 39, 54, 58–60
Wyndham, George, 8
“Leda and the Swan,” 60