Pulp & Prejudice: Essays in Search of Books, Culture, and God by Bottum Joseph

Author:Bottum, Joseph [Bottum, Joseph]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2012-07-09T00:00:00+00:00

Because I do not hope to turn again

Because I do not hope

Because I do not hope to turn . . .

Lord I am not worthy

Lord I am not worthy

but speak the word only.

The experience of his new thought modifies Eliot’s sensibility, and there shines through the Lenten dark of “Ash-Wednesday” a joy in the poetic craft that was missing from “The Hollow Men.”

But the joy fades as the thought grows stale and hardens into an established position. Eliot’s spirituality does not deepen as time goes by, and portions of the Christian workers’ chants in the choruses from The Rock (1934) have the joyless feeling found elsewhere only in 1930s socialist workers’ declarations of communal joy in work. Eliot never lost his power to turn quotable and right lines:

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