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The Letter Giveth Life
van Doren, Mark | May 15, 1929 issue

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This article focuses on the book "For Lancelot Andrewes. Essays on Style and Order," by T.S. Eliot. The author says that he heard that this book abused as sterile by persons who had not got past the already famous preface wherein Mr. Eliot states that his general point of view is classicist in literature, royalist in politics, and anglo-catholic in religion. Mr. Eliot, so the legend goes, has withered into a triple faith, hardened into a three-headed dogma-turned a fastidious, tired back upon glorious confusion and gone the easy, empty way of absolutism.

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FOR Lancelot Andrewes: Essays on Style & Order (Book); ELIOT, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965; PREFACES; CANON (Literature); DESPOTISM; BOOKS & reading
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