T. S. Eliot and the Essay

Index

139 = Index acceptance, 5, 31, 36, 101, 128, 129 affirmation, 23, 30, 35, 117 analogy, 53, 72, 83, 95 Ancients and Moderns, 82 Andrewes, Lancelot, 38–39, 124 Anglo-Catholic, 13, 16, 36, 42, 52, 125 Arnold, Matthew, 1, 9, 15, 41, 42, 69, 92, 108 article, the (definite), x, 3, 29, 58, 73, 74, 97 Babbitt, Irving, 16, 42, 66, 125 Bacon, Francis, 3, 6, 11, 57, 78 Baldwin, James, 23 Barthelme, Donald, 31 Barthes, Roland (S/Z), x, 3 Belloc, Hilaire, 21, 24–25, 35, 73 “The Mowing of a Field,” 24, 25, 73 “On the Pleasure of Taking Up One’s Pen,” 73 Benjamin, Walter, 69 Berry, Wendell, 31, 45 Bible, the, vii, 31, 47, 84, 101, 125, 131 Blake, William, 77 Bloom, Harold, 69, 70 both/and-ness, 34 Boyle, Richard (third Earl of Burlington), 107 Bradley, F. H., 8 Bredvold, Louis I., 39 Brightman, (Canon) F. E., 112–13 Browning, Robert, 13, 17 Bultmann, Rudolf, 83 by means of, 3, 7–10, 12, 19, 26, 33, 46, 64, 66, 88, 113, 115, 117, 124, 128 Candide (Voltaire), 32 Carlyle, Thomas, 69 Caroline, 18, 78, 124 Carson, Anne, 38 catholicity, 92, 125, 129 centering, 87 certainty, 1, 50 Chapman, George, 61 Charles I, King, 18 Chesterton, G. K., 6, 9, 13, 24, 67, 73 Christianity, vii, 8, 12, 32, 35, 54, 133 atheism as variety of, 133n3 its essential marks, 128 Church of England, 8, 13, 52, 96, 99, 103 Church of Rome, 39, 52 140 Index classicism and Catholicism, 16 classicist, 16, 42 co-existence, 116 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 6, 40, 60, 62, 63 conformity, 51–52, 74, 82–83 Confucius, 85, 108 Connolly, Cyril, 3 contemplation, 39, 66 Cowley, Abraham (“Of Greatness”), 11 critic(ism), 58 and creation, 61–63, 70 dogmatic, 62, 63 and elucidation, 53, 62 English, 66 enthusiastic type of, 69 ideal, 59, 67 of life, 66 monumental, 43, 65 normal, 40, 41 and orthodoxy, 42 perfect, 63, 67 and religion, 70 social, 68 within literature, 66 Critical History of the Old Testament, The (Father Richard Simon), 98 Cromwellian revolution, 48 Daniel, Arnaut, 84 Dante, 2, 5, 35–39, 60, 62, 68–70, 76, 77, 83, 86, 117 Divine Comedy, The, 35, 60, 86, 117 Vita Nuova, La, 35, 36 Purgatorio, 60, 86 Davie, Donald, 94, 101, 133 Davis, Walter A., 102 decentering of the self, 87 deconstruction, 13, 107, 127 demythologizing, 21, 83 De Quincey, Thomas, 37 De religione laici (Lord Herbert of Cherbury), 95 Derrida, Jacques, 88, 107, 109 Descartes, René, 8 desire, 14–15, 21, 48, 57, 85, 87, 93, 115–17, 121, 127 Dickinson, Henry, 94 Dillard, Annie, 11, 23, 31, 45 direct(ness), 5, 7, 12, 24–26, 35, 46, 47, 84, 109, 113, 117 discovery, x, 18, 111, 112 disembodying, 3, 13, 21 dissociation of sensibility, ix, 6, 9, 16, 17 Dobrée, Bonamy, 1 Donne, John, 17, 38, 61, 123–24 Dryden, John, vii, 15, 17, 36, 38–42, 48, 57, 60, 63, 69, 77, 79, 103, 104, 108–9, 125, 131–33 Hind and the Panther, The, 18 Religio Laici, 18, 29, 30, 47, 94, 131–33 Anglicanism in, 99 as essay, 13, 92, 95–104, 108 as layman’s faith, 95–98 and reading, 96–98, 100–102 either/or, 5, 7, 50, 52, 115, 133 Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns) After Strange Gods, 15, 47 against oppositional thinking, 5, 8, 18, 32, 74, 114 against skepticism, 43 and anti-Semitism, 15, 56, 129 and asceticism, 33, 129 Ash-Wednesday, 6, 7, 22, 32, 38, 65, 77, 85, 111, 114–18, 126, 128–30 and the center, 87 as difficult and resistant to reading, 81, 84, 86–89 and a new verse and ancient rhyme, 83, 84, 87 and autobiography, 1, 2, 38, 60, 73, 91 before conversion, 8–10 Index 141 “Burnt Norton,” 8, 31, 46, 114–16, 128, 130 caricatured, 123 confronts self-dramatization, 75–76 on the critic and imperfection, 66–67 and criticism as creative, 62–63, 73 Dante, 2, 35–38, 70 “A Dialogue on Dramatic Poetry,” 39 “The Dry Salvages,” 8, 34, 120, 129 “East Coker,” 8, 36, 84, 92–94, 113–14, 116–17, 119–21, 128 Elizabethan Essays, 5, 69, 75 and escape from personality, 72, 123 and the essay tradition, 3, 17, 50, 57 and expectation, 50, 120, 127 and faith (or belief) and doubt, 76, 86, 128 as familiar, 74...