T.S. Eliot’s Christmas Poems: An Essay in Writing-as-Reading and Other “Impossible Unions”

1. Challenging Critical Orthodoxies, Confronting Binary Oppositions: The Commentator par lui-même
G. Douglas Atkins

2. The Gift Half Understood, or Eliot’s Ariel Poems: Beyond the Old Dispensation
G. Douglas Atkins

3. Triumphal March: The Problem Lies in Our Perceiving
G. Douglas Atkins

4. The Cultivation of Christmas Trees: Through the Eyes of Children (and the Child-like)
G. Douglas Atkins

5. Journey of the Magi: A Fable of Commentary: With a Second Coming to the Inexhaustible
G. Douglas Atkins

6. Animula: What the Simple Soul Knows, or “Living first in the silence after the viaticum”
G. Douglas Atkins

7. A Song for Simeon: The Difference the Letter Makes: Prayer, Self-Criticism, Validity
G. Douglas Atkins

8. Marina: “Living to live in a world of time beyond me”: Recognizing, Perceiving, and Understanding
G. Douglas Atkins

Avainsanat: Literature, Poetry and Poetics, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary History, North American Literature