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Aethereal Rumours: T. S. Eliot's Physics and Poetics.

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From: Yearbook of English Studies
Date: 20010101
Author:Crawford, Robert

 
Aethereal Rumours: T. S. Eliot's Physics and Poetics. By Benjamin G. 
Lockerd, Jr. Cranbury, NJ: Bucknell University Press; London: Associated 
University Presses. 1998. 318 pp. [pound]39.50. 

Arguing that T. S. Eliot was greatly impressed by his student reading of the pre-Socratic philosophers, particularly Heraclitus, Benjamin Lockerd contends that the poet developed a habit of mind which used the elements of Greek physics to present the material world as fused with the spiritual. For Lockerd, Eliot's poetry offers an incarnational poetics attuned not only to pre-Socratic and ...

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