Kenneth Asher examines the influence of French reactionary thinking on Eliot's prose and poetry and argues that this political inheritance provided the intellectual framework Eliot employed throughout his career.
Setting out to demonstrate the effect of politics on the work of T. S. Eliot, T. S. Eliot and Ideology charts first of all the influence of French reactionary thinking on Eliot's prose and poetry, and further argues that this political inheritance provided the intellectual framework...