On the Use of Martyrs: Tennyson and Eliot on Thomas Becket
- On the Use of MartyrsTennyson and Eliot on Thomas Becket
Graduate of the University of Toronto in Philosophy and English, 1962
notes
1. R. S. Rabbins, The T. S. Eliot Myth (New York, 1951), 20.
2. Murder in the Cathedral, ed. H. A. Voaden (London, 1959), 101.
3. Robbins, 96.
4. In Selected Prose (Penguin Books, 1958), 78.
5. Voaden, 101.
6. Selected Prose, 77.
7. Ibid.
8. J. H. Buckley, Tennyson: The Growth of a Poet (Cambridge, Mass., 1960), 207.
9. Selected Prose, 77.
10. Ibid., 78.
11. Ibid., 85.
12. The two versions of Becket may be compared in volume 9 of the “Eversley Edition” of the Works (London, 1908).
13. It is an interesting comment on theatrical fashion that in Jean Anouilh’s highly successful treatment of the Becket story, one of the choicest acting bits is Henry’s fit of epileptic rage, which so appals the knights that they slip off and murder Becket, as it were, to calm him down.
14. W. Y. Tindall, The Literary Symbol (Bloomington, 1955), 188.
