Eliot’s Transitions: T. S. Eliot’s Search for Identity and the Society of the Sacred Mission at Kelham Hall

FAIRACRES PUBLICATIONS 223This book examines the influence of members of the Society of the Sacred Mission at Kelham Hall on T. S. Eliot’s poetics, cultural criticism and his search for identity. It focusses particularly on Eliot’s friendship with Br George Every SSM, and the correspondence between them that led to a deep intellectual and spiritual relationship. The author builds his study on his own conversations and correspondence with Every, the archive of Society of the Sacred Mission papers in the Borthwick Institute in York, and the collection of papers and other material left to the author by Every on his death. The result is a delicate journey through the growing personal and spiritual relationship between a great theologian and Christian writer, and one of the greatest modern poets and essayists.Reverend Canon Dr Vincent Strudwick (b. 1932) studied history at Nottingham University and theology at Kelham Hall, where he was later Vice-Principal and Tutor in church history and ascetical theology. He was Director of Education and Training in the Diocese of Oxford until 1988. Until 2000 he was Director of the Religious Studies Programmes in the dept for Continuing Education in the University, and continues to lecture widely. He was awarded a Lambeth doctorate in 2009 and is a fellow of Rewley and Kellogg Colleges, Oxford.Read more