ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Eliot’s almost invocatory deference to a simultaneous order out of history strongly underlines the impersonality of the tradition, and the poet’s mind can then be treated as correspondingly impersonal, a catalytic chamber for a process that is independent of the contents of that mind.

Detailed explanation-2: -Lyndall Gordon, The Imperfect Life of T. S. Eliot . There have been a number of biographies of T. S. Eliot, but this one, from 2012, is the best, in our opinion. (It’s actually an updated version of several earlier biographies of Eliot Gordon had written.)

Detailed explanation-3: -Abstract. T. S. Eliot became a baptized Anglican in 1927 and, in the preface to For Lancelot Andrewes, declared himself an “anglo-catholic in religion.” This dissertation examines Eliot’s works in the light of his Anglo-Catholicism.

Detailed explanation-4: -He also published three short stories in 1905, “Birds of Prey”, “A Tale of a Whale” and “The Man Who Was King”. The last mentioned story significantly reflects his exploration of Igorot Village while visiting the 1904 World’s Fair of St. Louis.