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Desire and the Ascetic Ideal: Buddhism and Hinduism in the Works of T. S. Eliot by Edward Upton; is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.
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The Hindu words "Shantih shantih shantih" provide the closing of The Waste Land, perhaps the most famous poem of the twentieth century. This is just one example among many of T. S. Eliot’s immersion in Sanskrit and Indian philosophy and of how this fascination strongly influenced his work. Centering on Eliot’s study of sources from ancient India, this new book offers a rereading of the poet’s work, analyzing his unpublished graduate school notebooks on Indian philosophy and exploring Eliot’s con
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- Author
- Edward Upton;
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Published
- 2023
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780813950501
- Category
- literary studies
- Subjects
- Literary Criticism, Humanities
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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