abstraction, 22
accept, acceptance, 23, 50, 64, 65, 84, 97, 98, 104
action, 61, 65, 66, 70, 71, 73, 76, 95
“And all shall be well and / All manner of thing shall be well,” 26, 50, 74, 91, 94, 96, 97, 101, 103
amalgamation (of differences), 7, 81, 85, 99, 103
analysis. See comparison and analysis
Andrewes, Lancelot, 2, 3, 5, 34, 49, 61, 87
Anglican community, 20, 71, 82
Anglo-Catholicism, vi, 2, 5, 76
annunciation, 44, 50, 53, 54, 56, 61, 69
another dimension. See under intersection
apparent oppositions, 68, 86, 92, 99, 101
Arnold, Matthew
“The Scholar Gypsy,” 42
“Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse,” 42
association, 8, 13–15, 35, 63, 99
Atkins, G.D., T.S. Eliot: The Poet as Christian, 5, 73, 74
attachment, 95, 97. See also detachment, indifference
attend, attendance, 10, 13, 15, 22, 27, 41, 52, 56, 64, 70, 74, 81, 82, 84, 87, 89, 99, 102, 103
Augustine, Saint, 16
auto-reading, 9
Babbitt, Irving, 2
Baudelaire, Charles, 2
being, 44, 45, 49, 77, 94, 102
Belloc, Hilaire, 38
“be mindful” (“sovegna vos”), 2, 3, 15, 42, 61, 96, 99
Bible
Genesis, 24
Luke, 54
New and Old Testaments, vi, 5, 12, 15, 54, 72, 84, 86
both/and, 15, 25–27, 98. See also either/or, neither/nor
Bradley, F.H., 2
Browne, Sir Thomas, Religio Medici, 5
“Andrea del Sarto,” 85
“Fra Lippo Lippi,” 85
“My Last Duchess,” 85
Buddha, 16
care (and not to care), 16, 36, 37, 73
Charles I (King), 70, 71, 82, 84, 85, 97
Cherbury, Lord Herbert of, De religione laici, 5
Christian understanding, 36, 64, 72, 99
Claye, Charles, 31
coming together, 31, 40, 55, 62, 63, 65, 82, 84, 99, 101
commonality, 83
comparison and analysis, vii, 3, 11, 20, 29, 38, 42, 45, 85
concord(e), 3, 13–15, 35, 63, 72, 77, 92, 99
conjunction (“coniunction”), 2, 3, 16, 30, 35, 41, 43, 45, 63, 68, 99, 103. See also “necessarye coniunction”
Conrad, Joseph, The Heart of Darkness, 76
Crashaw, Richard, 2
Cromwell, Oliver, 71, 72, 82, 85, 97
dance, 10, 13, 14, 20, 24, 25, 28, 34, 35, 44, 45, 69, 71, 88, 94, 100, 101
Daniel, Arnaut, 2
Dante, The Divine Comedy, 19
dark dove (German Luftwaffe), 50, 78, 91, 98
darkness, 11, 24, 27, 42, 44–46, 51, 65, 76–78, 86, 88, 89, 91, 92, 94
desire, 16, 19, 25, 26, 30, 31, 36, 40, 42, 46, 68–70, 73, 74, 76, 82, 84, 95, 101
detachment, 8, 95, 97. See also attachment, indifference
difference (and sameness), 12, 14, 15, 84, 92. See also amalgamation (of differences)
difficult, difficulty, viii, 4, 7, 9, 11, 12, 34, 36, 40, 45, 46, 50, 60, 62, 65, 74, 78, 96, 98–102
Donne, John, 6
Donoghue, Denis, 19
drama, dramatization, 5, 13, 21, 29, 30, 35, 38, 43, 46, 49, 50, 54, 55, 62, 65, 66, 71, 72, 81, 85–87, 91, 96, 98, 101
dramatic monologue, 85
Dryden, John, 78
Religio Laici, 5
either/or, 61, 62, 64, 86, 98. See also both/and, neither/nor
Eliot, T.S.
The Cultivation of Christmas Trees, 5, 9, 14
Ash-Wednesday, vi, vii, 2, 3, 5, 7–11, 15, 16, 20, 21, 25, 27, 29, 37, 38, 40–42, 55, 61, 62, 64, 65, 69, 72–74, 77, 78, 86, 87, 91, 95, 96, 99, 102
For Lancelot Andrewes: Essays on Style and Order, 2, 7, 38
Four Quartets, vi, vii, viii, 1–17, 19–23, 25, 26, 28, 30, 31, 34, 36–38, 46, 49, 50, 52, 54, 56, 60–62, 64–66, 68–75, 79, 81, 83–87, 89–91, 93, 94, 96, 98–103
“Burnt Norton,” 7, 10, 11, 15, 18–32, 34–37, 40, 43, 49, 50, 56, 68–71, 73, 75, 76, 81, 82, 84, 101
“The Dry Salvages,” 5, 7, 11, 12, 19, 27, 39, 43, 44, 48–66, 69, 70, 73, 82, 84, 99, 100
“East Coker,” 2, 3, 7, 8, 10, 13–15, 19, 20, 23, 31, 33–47, 49, 50, 54, 56, 61, 69–71, 73, 76, 77, 82, 84, 86, 88, 98–102
“Little Gidding,” 6–10, 13, 19, 20, 21, 24, 26, 27, 31, 38–40, 45, 49, 50, 56, 60, 61, 65, 66, 67–104
“Gerontion,” 85
“The Hollow Men,” 7, 20, 21, 24, 62, 65, 76, 92
John Dryden, the Poet, the Dramatist, the Critic, 5
Journey of the Magi, vii, 5, 77, 78, 83, 102
“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” vii, 8, 11, 12, 20, 22, 68, 69, 73, 74, 85
“The Metaphysical Poets,” 6
Murder in the Cathedral, 20
Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats, 21
“Tradition and the Individual Talent,” 7, 13, 86, 102
Triumphal March, 69
The Waste Land, 6, 13, 16, 20, 21, 24, 26, 36, 41, 49, 65, 78, 81, 85, 90, 93
Elyot, Sir Thomas, The Boke named the Gouvernour, 13, 34
embody, embodiment, vii, 20, 38, 39, 49, 50, 56, 60, 71, 72, 79, 92, 97, 101
enact, enactment, 19, 26, 30, 31, 38, 45, 65, 96
enigma, 16, 24, 36, 40, 49, 52, 91, 92, 101
essay, 16, 21, 39, 68, 75, 86, 104
essay-poem, viii, 5, 6, 22, 56, 73, 79, 81, 103
exploration, 16, 40, 43, 60, 103
falsehood, 9, 11, 36, 50, 56, 64, 65, 68, 69, 71, 78, 90
“familiar compound ghost,” 24, 66, 70, 71, 77, 78, 85, 89, 90, 92, 95, 96
“fare forward,” vii, 16, 24, 39, 51, 61, 64, 69, 74, 76, 95, 104
fire, 16, 20, 27, 36, 76, 85, 89–91, 94, 98, 100, 103
fire and the rose, 16, 21, 26, 81, 85, 91, 104
See also water
forgiveness, 20, 69, 71, 72, 77, 93, 103
four elements, 89–91
fulfill, fulfillment, vi, vii, 5–8, 12, 14–16, 19–21, 24, 28, 30, 31, 36, 39, 40, 42, 43, 45, 49, 50, 62, 65, 66, 72, 81, 83–85, 87, 89, 90, 104
getting it right, 11, 45, 50, 68, 86, 99, 101
Guy Fawkes, 74
half-understood, 5, 11, 62, 91, 96
Hesse, Hermann, Siddhartha, 52
Hinduism, 51
Holy Ghost, 65, 70, 77, 78, 103
humble, humility, vii, 16, 38, 42, 43, 46, 50–52, 69, 71, 77, 87, 101, 102
idealism, 73
identity, 15
immanence, 5, 9, 12, 16, 28, 29, 62, 75, 86. See also transcend, transcendence
immortality, 91
“impossible union,” 5, 7, 12, 25, 27, 62, 63, 79, 81, 92, 99
in, through, and by means of, 3, 26, 40, 45, 53, 64, 65, 74, 78, 103
Incarnation, viii, 5, 11, 12, 25, 27, 43, 46, 51, 62, 63, 70, 72, 73, 84, 86, 88, 102
Incarnational form, 50
Incarnational pattern, 12, 13, 27, 43, 45
Incarnational understanding, 34, 66, 70, 71, 98
Incarnation, the, 5, 12, 13, 26, 43, 49, 52, 54, 62, 64, 72–74, 82, 84, 86–88, 96
indifference, 95, 97. See also attachment, detachment
indirectness, 4, 5, 41, 42, 55, 71, 76
inter- and intra-textuality, 10, 16, 20, 21, 26
intersection, vii, viii, 12, 22, 34, 41, 66, 68–72, 75, 77, 78, 81, 92–94
with another dimension, 11, 23, 56, 61, 70, 72–74, 81
temporal, 24, 27, 56, 61, 72, 77, 84, 92, 96
Jesus Christ, 12, 36, 54, 62, 71, 77, 97
journey toward understanding, viii, 52
Joyce, James, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, 11
Julian of Norwich, Dame, 28, 96
Kenner, Hugh, 19, 54, 56, 62–64
Kept, Sir William, 20
“Lady of silences,” 10, 72, 77, 91
Langbaum, Robert, 85
“layman’s faith” tradition, 5, 62
light, 23, 27, 45, 46, 64, 65, 69, 76–78, 86, 89, 92, 103
literal, literalize, 12, 29, 64, 70, 81, 87, 96, 99
logic of concepts, 7, 21, 38, 40, 51, 81, 99, 103
logic of the imagination, 7, 8, 21, 40, 42, 49, 99, 103
love, 50, 69, 78, 91, 94, 98, 99
Lukács, Georg, 87
Machiavelli, Niccolo, 2
Matthiesson, F.O., 19
meditation, vii, 3, 28, 39, 85, 86. See also comparison and analysis
middle way, 37, 97, 98. See also via media
Middleton, Thomas, 2
“necessarye coniunction,” 10, 13, 15, 19, 29, 35, 40, 63, 72, 79, 81, 83, 88, 97–101
neither/nor, 25. See also both/and, either/or
New Testament. See under Bible
Old Testament. See under Bible
other-dimensional, 8, 39, 71, 82, 83
paradox, vii, 3, 12, 26, 27, 29, 36, 37, 40, 49, 52, 54, 64, 72, 91, 92
part (and whole), 6, 7, 9, 10, 12, 15, 30, 31, 50, 55, 56, 60, 68, 72, 75, 78, 81, 85, 86, 94–96, 99
participation, viii, 7, 24, 28, 78
Pascal, Blaise, Pensées, 4
pattern, vii, viii, 5, 10, 12, 15, 16, 19, 20, 23, 24, 28–30, 39, 43, 50, 51, 54, 55, 62, 69, 70, 72, 73, 75, 87, 94, 100, 102, 103
perception, 69
Perse, St.-John, Anabasis, 7–9, 21
philosopher-poet, 12
“the poetry does not matter,” 2, 3, 15, 20, 28, 31, 37, 84, 86, 101
An Essay on Criticism, viii, 3
purification, 16, 20, 21, 27, 36, 74, 76, 93, 95–98, 101, 103
reader, reading, vii, 2, 4, 7–11, 13–16, 24, 25, 28, 29, 34, 46, 49, 52, 54, 56, 71, 81, 85, 86, 98, 99, 101. See also writing
reconcile, reconciliation, 19, 27, 45, 63, 84, 103
redemption, 22
refine, refinement, vi, 21, 26, 27, 38, 39, 40, 42, 49–51, 54, 69, 70, 72, 73, 75, 76, 94, 96
“restoring/ With a new verse the ancient rhyme,” vi, vii, 3, 29, 38, 55, 86, 88, 95
rhyme, rhyming, 3, 4, 10, 13, 14, 15, 21, 23, 25, 26, 29, 30, 35–42, 44, 52, 53, 55, 60–62, 63, 71, 75, 81–83, 85, 88, 91–95, 98, 99, 101, 102. See also “restoring/ With a new verse the ancient rhyme”
ruins, 9, 20, 65, 70, 71, 82, 84, 89
Ruskin, John, 63
sameness, 82–84, 86, 93, 95, 97, 103
sameness in difference, 10, 34, 92, 96, 100. See also difference (and sameness)
scene, 35, 81, 85, 88, 89, 91, 92
self-correction, 24
self-criticism, 21, 24, 44, 46, 78
self-division, 44
separation, 6, 7, 9, 11–13, 16, 26, 31, 39, 41, 43, 44, 70, 81, 87, 91, 92, 97, 99, 102
Shakespeare, William, Hamlet, 103
skepticism, 64
speaker, speaking, 2, 9, 12, 13, 15, 22, 25, 26, 28, 29, 37, 41–45, 49, 50, 53–56, 61–65, 70–72, 74, 76–78, 81, 83, 85, 89–93, 95–97, 100, 102. See also voice
speculation, 19, 20, 21, 23, 25, 28, 52, 81
squeezing and squeezing (of words), 3, 10, 12, 22, 26, 89, 95, 102
still point, vii, 20, 25, 40, 68, 69, 71, 72, 96
submission, vii, 3, 16, 27, 38, 46, 73
Swift, Jonathan, A Tale of a Tub, 19
Tennyson, Alfred Lord, 6
thoroughgoing, 36, 96, 98, 101
in time, 26–28, 31, 39, 50, 52, 60, 61, 69, 71–73, 75, 81, 83–85, 90, 92, 96, 103, 104
tone, 15, 30, 49, 51, 53–56, 61, 62, 64, 84, 89, 94–96, 98
transcend, transcendence, 5, 9, 12, 15, 16, 26, 27, 30, 62, 63, 65, 70, 72, 75, 81, 86, 96. See also immanence
unattended moment, 12, 61, 63, 70. See also attend, attendance
understanding, vii, viii, 50, 94
unite, union, 2, 9, 15, 23, 24, 45, 68, 81, 84, 90, 93, 97, 99, 103, 104
via media, 101. See also middle way
Vishnu, 51
voice, viii, 26, 29, 34, 38, 44–46, 49–51, 54–56, 60, 65, 78, 83, 85, 88, 90, 92, 93, 101. See also speaker, speaking
wastelanders, 8, 13, 16, 20, 26, 35, 36, 41, 69, 74, 76
water, 20, 21, 23, 71, 76, 89, 90. See also fire
way, 3, 4, 9–11, 15, 21, 27, 41, 43–46, 50, 51, 56, 61, 70, 76, 78, 82, 86, 89, 91, 96, 101, 102
Weitz, Morris, 19
whole. See part (and whole)
within and for the world, 10, 11, 65, 70, 87, 94, 95
Woolf, Leonard and Virginia, 6
Word, the, 10, 11, 16, 41, 62, 65, 66, 70, 76, 78, 81, 86–89, 95
writing, 37, 38, 46, 49, 62, 65, 68, 69, 73, 100, 101, 103. See also reader, reading