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LONDON OBSERVED ANONYMOUS: T S Eliot at Duthy Hall, 1957

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From: The Independent on Sunday
Date: 20030720
Author:Kevin Jackson

To the left, the precentor of Southwark Cathedral. To the right, the Mayor of Southwark. And at the centre, a smiling public man: Thomas Stearns Eliot, publisher, playwright, poet, Anglican. It's 1957 -

35 years after the publication of The Waste Land. The occasion is a service for the opening of a Shakespeare season at Duthy Hall; the bard from Missourri pays his respects to the bard from Warwickshire. Happy the church that can confront the armies of secularism with such a ferociously intelligent foot-soldier. Formally, it's quite a dull shot: the only discordant note is struck by the young ...

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