Charles Williams and T.S. Eliot: Friends and Rivals

Autor:	Stephen Barber
Rok vydání:	2019
Předmět:	History Literature and Literary Theory Publishing business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Art history Art business media_common
Zdroj:	Journal of Inklings Studies. 9:1-18
ISSN:	2045-8800 2045-8797
DOI:	10.3366/ink.2019.0024
Popis:	Williams and Eliot were close in age and both worked in publishing as well having careers as poets and freelance writers. However, their backgrounds were very different: Williams came from humble origins and was not able to complete a university degree, whereas Eliot at first seemed to set to become an academic philosopher. They first met in the early 1930s, by which time Williams had been both confused and influenced by The Waste Land. Eliot started to read Williams's novels and was in turn greatly influenced by them. They became increasingly close until Williams's death in 1945. Eliot showed the greatest influence of Williams in his 1949 play The Cocktail Party. Their Christian sensibility had some important features in common and, in the end, Williams's concept of the Affirmative Way became a great influence on Eliot.
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