RT Book
T1 Desire and the ascetic ideal: Buddhism and Hinduism in the works of T.S. Eliot
T2 Studies in religion and culture
A1 Upton, Edward 1973-
LA English
PP Charlottesville London
PB University of Virginia Press
YR 2023
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1851711848
AB "T.S. Eliot was crucially influenced by his early engagement with Indian texts, and when analyzed through this lens, his poems reveal a criticism of the attachments of human desire and the suggestion that asceticism might hold out the possibility that desire can be cultivated toward a metaphysical absolute. Centering his study of sources from ancient India, this new book offers a rereading of the poet's work, analyzing his unpublished graduate school notebooks on Indian philosophy and exploring Eliot's connection with Buddhist thought"--
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN PS3509.L43
SN 9780813949987
SN 9780813949994
K1 Eliot, T. S : (Thomas Stearns) : 1888-1965 : Religion
K1 Eliot, T. S : (Thomas Stearns) : 1888-1965 : Criticism and interpretation
K1 Buddhism in literature
K1 Hinduism in literature