Eliot Essays

”The finest tact after all can give us only an interpretation, and every  interpretation, along perhaps with some utterly contradictory  interpretation, has to be taken up and reinterpreted by every  thinking mind and by every civilization.” — T. S. Eliot, Knowledge and Experience in the Philosophy of F. H. Bradley …

Born September 26, 1888, Thomas Sterns (T.S.) Eliot is recognized as one of the most important men in the history of English literature. His father was a successful businessman named Henry Ware Eliot, and his mother was a teacher and poet named Charlotte Sterns Eliot. Together they had seven children, …

Eliot writes of culture as “the way of life of a particular people living together in one place. That culture is made visible in their arts, in their social system, in their habits and customs, in their religion.(Milner, A (1994) Contemporary Cultural Theory: An Introduction. London: UCC Press.) A culture, …