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In T. S. Eliot’s Ascetic Ideal, Joshua Richards charts an intellectual history of T. S. Eliot’s interaction with asceticism. This history is drawn from Eliot’s own education in the topic with the texts he read integrated into detailed textual analysis. Eliot’s early encounters with the ascetic ideal began a lifetime of interplay and reflection upon self-denial, purgation, and self-surrender. In 1909, he began a study of mysticism, likely, in George Santayana’s seminar, and thereafter showed the
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- Author
- Joshua Richards
- Publisher
- Brill | Rodopi
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9789004375826
- Category
- literary studies
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Memoir, Biography
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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