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Eliot and His Age: T. S. Eliot's Moral Imagination in the Twentieth Century (Paperback)

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Though much has been written about T. S. Eliot since it was first published, Eliot and His Age remains the best introduction to the poet’s life, ideas, and literary works. It is the essential starting place for anyone who would understand what Eliot was about. Russell Kirk’s view of his older friend is sympathetic but not adulatory. His insights into Eliot’s writings are informed by wide reading in the same authors who most influenced the poet, as well as by similar experiences and convictions. Kirk elaborates here a significant theory of literary meaning in general, showing how great literary works awaken our intuitive reason, giving us profound visions of truth that transcend logical processes. And he traces Eliot’s political and cultural ideas to their true sources, showing the balance and subtlety of Eliot’s views. Eliot and His Age is a literary biography that will endure when much of the more recent writing on Eliot is gathering dust.

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Russell Kirk (1918–94) was an independent man of letters whose best-known book is The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot. Several of his other books, including The American Cause, The Roots of American Order, The Politics of Prudence, Redeeming the Time, and The Sword of Imagination, are available from ISI Books. New introduction by Benjamin G. Lockerd Jr. Lockerd is a professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Grand Valley State University. He is a former president of the T. S. Eliot Society and is currently on the society’s board of directors. His books include The Sacred Marriage: Psychic Integration in “The Faerie Queene” and Aethereal Rumours: T. S. Eliot’s Physics and Poetics.

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Paperback: 460 pages
Publisher: Intercollegiate Studies Institute; 2 edition (July 15, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1933859539
ISBN-13: 978-1933859538
Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 1.2 inches
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5.0 out of 5 stars Rediscovering Eliot and Kirk, July 17, 2008

By	John E. Rocha "ligurio" (Houston, TX United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I first read Kirk's book just out of college in the early 1990's. It guided me to more fully understand the worldview, which I had and in which Eliot and Kirk were my guides. I highly recommend this book for all students of modernity and poetry who are beginning to grapple with Eliot and his thought as well as those who are well versed in Eliot. Kirk's prose is one to study as there no one better at the end of the 20th century. Lockerd's "Introduction" intertwines these two men of letters intellectually, spiritually, and uniquely through "phil�a". As Eliot continues to be studied and sometimes emasculated by critics, Lockerd turns us back to this often forgotten text for it is an original study of Eliot. Russell Kirk examines and properly refutes the political and racist charges made against Eliot today, but Kirk did this in 1971! Readers should be aware that Kirk is not openly defending Eliot, but rather giving a proper examination to his writings, both poetical and cultural critiques as well as Eliot's relationships. Remember to begin to understand a person; one must first look at the friends around him.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Magnificent book, poor binding, May 25, 2009

By	Joseph A. Harder "coffee drinking papist" (Warren Michigan,) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Recently, the National Review On-Line "corner', carried scornful, ignorant remarks about Eliot by three marginally talented literary hacks: The glib 'popular mathematics" writer, John Derbyshire, whose literary reputation rests on a fairly good novel about a Chinese immigrants fascination with Calvin Coolidge, and who is stupid enough to find Joyce Kilmer's "Trees" a great poem, the talented polemicist ( and frankly, tedious Star Trek enthusiast, Jonah Goldberg),and finally, the film critic for the Weekly Standard, who apparently owes his position, not to his rather meager intellectual virtues, or his very limited taste, but to the fact that he is the son of two very gifted neo-conservative publicists. ( What IS his name again? No matter, it' not important.)
Nothing, I think, could better illustrate the vulgarity and decadence of much- not all- but much of contemporary "conservativism" than such dismissals of the greatest Conservative-and Christian- literary figure and intellectual of the twentieth century. This book-which I urge every intelligent young conservative to read- is a powerful antidote. ( incidentally, it also reminds us of how intelligent the conservative movement in this country used to be.) It is a humane, generous, beautifully written,and beautifully thought out book of great learning, with surprises on virtually every page. Eliot was not without flaws and blindspots, but this book reminds us of the depth of his moral imagination, the acuteness of his mind, and the breadth of his intellectual and human sympathies. READ it..it is the next best thing to reading Eliot himself.
One caveat. The copy I got from Amazon.com has poor binding. The first eight pages actually fell out. the problem is, how do I contact Amazon.com to get a less shoddily bound replacement? I have searched this web-site, and found no place to issue consumer complaints.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Of the Book in Question and the Amiable Goodness Thereof, May 26, 2000

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Upon reading the aforementioned work by the great and amiable Englishman Russel Kirk, I have been forced to come to conclusion that the work is, in general, well-written and, in particular, quite enlightening. His explanations of Eliot's important poetical works are biographically sound, and are given support by cross-references to other prose pieces by Eliot himself (whether from Eliot's own _Criterion_ or some other publication). The fact that Kirk was a friend of Eliot's gives the book great strength and objectivity. I recommend this book to any who are at all serious in their study of Eliot. It is a work no true fan of Eliot can do without, humbuggery notwithstanding.

Yours truly,

Andy Younan, Esq.

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