{"product_id":"t-s-eliot-an-essay-on-the-american-magus-9780820331959","title":"T. S. Eliot: An Essay on the American Magus","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis brilliantly allusive and gracefully written study is focused on T. S. Eliot's developing commitment to Christianity, but the essay is by no means procrustean or reductive in its strategies, nor is it theological. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMontgomery shows how Eliot's intellectual and emotional uneasiness in the early poems is reflected in such technical devices as point of view and imagery. The questions of the poem's voice and the poet's mask (which are often ironic in nature) become less pressing as time goes on, and finally Eliot comes to a dynamic stillness--a frozen point in the sea of change that is variously called nature, history, and society. This stillness embodies the poet's rendering of Christian incarnation--the Word within the word. The author finds too that Eliot's imagery grows richer during the progress of his spiritual journey. As the imagery becomes more religious it also grows more complex and more concrete. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEliot in the end decides the poet's personal struggle to know his world is more important than the poetry which \"does not matter,\" as he says in East Coker. Paradoxically the poetry of T. S. Eliot takes on an increasingly classical quality as it steadily becomes more personal and Christian. Montgomery accordingly shows how Eliot ultimately arrives \"where he started and sees the place for the first time.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Marion Montgomery\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Georgia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 108\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.28lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.27d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780820331959\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMarion Montgomery is a poet, novelist, and critic who taught English at the University of Georgia for more than thirty years. His most recent books include \"With Walker Percy at the Tupperware Party: in Company with Flannery O'Connor, T. S. Eliot, and Others\" and \"Hillbilly Thomist: Flannery O'Connor, St. Thomas and the Limits of Art,\" as well as \"On Matters Southern: Essays About Literature and Culture, 1964-2000.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Georgia Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40840841724019,"sku":"9.78082E+12","price":40.68,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_534dcbb7-9128-461b-b8ad-48cc14b435f1.jpg?v=1685537345","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/t-s-eliot-an-essay-on-the-american-magus-9780820331959","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}