The poem is reactionary and confessional. It reinforces the adage that there is no zeal like the zeal of the convert.
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100 years on, T.S. Eliot’s The Hollow Men is a poem for our populist moment
In 1927, at 38 years of age, the expatriated American poet T.S. Eliot was baptised and confirmed in the Anglo-Catholic tradition. The celebrated author of The Waste Land (1922) – that literary paragon ...
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