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Ash‐Wednesday

The Oxford Companion to American Literature | 1995 | 590 words | Copyright

Ash‐Wednesday, poem by T.S. Eliot, was published in 1930 as a profession of his faith in the Church of England and represented a statement of the faith which he had called for at the end of The Waste Land. By employing certain portions of Dante's Divine Comedy and a sermon of Lancelot Andrewes in the frame of reference within which this poem of doubt and faith is constructed, Eliot manages to objectify the emotions he desires to evoke, concerning the security, the emotional satisfaction, and the profound truth that he can find only by accepting the traditions of the Church.

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