Eliot and His Age

T. S. Eliot’s Moral Imagination in the Twentieth Century

By Russell Kirk

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Though much has been written about T. S. Eliot, since it was first published, Eliot and His Age remains the best introduction to the poet’s life, ideas, and literary works. It is the essential starting place for anyone who would understand what Eliot was about. Many other biographies of Eliot unfairly demean or criticize their subject. Kirk is not uncritical, but he is sympathetic to Eliot’s political and religious convictions, and therefore conveys more clearly the thrust of Eliot’s work. Kirk’s insights into Eliot’s writings are informed by a wide reading in of same authors who most influenced the poet, as well as by similar experiences and convictions.

For Eliot devotees and Russell Kirk fans and those simply interested in one of the towering figures of twentieth-century literature, Eliot and His Age is a literary biography that will endure when much of the more recent writing on Eliot is gathering dust.